Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 199

Rim fragment.
Translucent blue layered with white, turquoise blue layered with yellow appearing green, purple, opaque white, yellow, with colorless glass.
Applied coil rim with rounded, vertical lip; convex curving side, tapering downward.
Rim in colorless glass with double spiral yellow threads; body decorated with vertical bands slanting slightly from top right to bottom left, forming a pattern: colorless with double spiral yellow threads, blue, green with single spiral purple thread, white, colorless with double spiral yellow threads, purple with white stripe, colorless with double spiral yellow threads, and white.
Many pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with slight surface pitting; dulling and iridescent weathering on interior and edges.

Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment, Glass, Roman

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