Glass short-strip mosaic bowl fragment
Rim fragment.
Translucent purple, turquoise blue, opaque white, yellow, and colorless.
Vertical rim with slightly inwardly-beveled edge; shallow convex curving side.
Short-strip mosaic pattern formed from short lengths of three or more canes set in slanting lines: one cane consists of a purple ground with white spiral enclosing a colorless ground with a central yellow rod; a second comprising of a blue band layered with white; a third in a colorless ground with a yellow spiral around a small central white rod encased in blue; a colorless network cane wound spirally with two blue threads is attached as a rim.
Pinprick bubbles in rim; polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling and creamy weathering on interior, rim, and jagged edges.
Translucent purple, turquoise blue, opaque white, yellow, and colorless.
Vertical rim with slightly inwardly-beveled edge; shallow convex curving side.
Short-strip mosaic pattern formed from short lengths of three or more canes set in slanting lines: one cane consists of a purple ground with white spiral enclosing a colorless ground with a central yellow rod; a second comprising of a blue band layered with white; a third in a colorless ground with a yellow spiral around a small central white rod encased in blue; a colorless network cane wound spirally with two blue threads is attached as a rim.
Pinprick bubbles in rim; polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling and creamy weathering on interior, rim, and jagged edges.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass short-strip mosaic bowl fragment
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; cast
- Dimensions: Other: 1 3/16 x 1 3/16 in. (3.1 x 3.1 cm); estimated diam. of rim 3 9/16 in. (9 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1836
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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