Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 199

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

Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment, Glass, Roman

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