Glass mosaic shallow dish fragment

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or possibly Italian

Not on view

Translucent golden brown, purple, turquoise blue partially appearing green, opaque yellow, white, and greyish blue.

Outsplayed, thick rim with rounded edge; shallow concave curving side, turned in at a sharp angle to flat bottom.

Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections, square segments, and rectangular lengths of eight canes: the first in a brown ground with a white spiral; the second in a brown ground with a white spiral around a large central purple rod; the third in a purple ground with a white spiral around a large central brown rod; the fourth in a purple ground with a white spiral around a large central blue rod; the fifth in alternating brown and purple flanked by parallel white stripes; the sixth in squarish yellow; the seventh in squarish white; and the eighth in squarish greyish blue. Some of the square segments are only visible on the interior. A wide brown network cane wound spirally with a white thread is attached as a rim.

Broken and repaired from two pieces; dulling, slight pitting of surface bubbles, and iridescence weathering on interior and exterior; some weathering on jagged edges. Rotary grinding on interior. Some irregular tooling indents on exterior of side.

Glass mosaic shallow dish fragment, Glass, Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or possibly Italian

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