Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment
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.
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; cast
- Dimensions: Overall: 1 1/16 x 1 9/16 in. (2.7 x 4 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1708
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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