Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 199

Rim fragment.
Translucent blue, turquoise blue, purple appearing opaque brick red, yellow, and white, with colorless glass.
Applied coil rim with rounded, vertical lip; slightly convex side, curving inward at bottom.
Rim in blue with white spiral thread; body decorated with bands slanting slightly from top right to bottom left, forming a pattern: yellow, colorless, yellow, blue with single spiral white thread, blue layered with white, blue, red, yellow, red, blue, blue layered with white, colorless with double spiral yellow threads, turquoise, colorless, and turquoise.
Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; creamy weathering on interior and some iridescent weathering on edges.

Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment, Glass, Roman

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