Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Body fragment.
Translucent blue, purple appearing opaque brick red, turquoise blue appearing green, yellow, and white, with colorless glass.
Convex curving side.
Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of different canes in regular, parallel bands: yellow, green, colorless with two overlapping spiral yellow threads, blue, red, blue, colorless with two overalapping spiral yellow threads, and green.
Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; pitting and creamy weathering on interior and jagged edges.

This type of Roman mosaic glass combines stripes of translucent colored glass with canes of network glass.

Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment, Glass, Roman

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