Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment
Rim and side of a shallow hemispherical bowl.
Translucent cobalt blue, purple appearing semi-opaque brick red, light blue appearing green, opaque yellow and white, and colorless.
Vertical rim with beveled inner lip; convex curving side, turned in sharply towards bottom.
Striped pattern formed from lengths of different canes in parallel, diagonal lines: one cane in green; another in yellow outlined with white lines; a third in blue; a network cane in colorless with two spiral yellow threads; a cane in layered stripes of red, white, and blue; another colorless network cone with a single yellow spiral thread; a green length; a blue length outlines in white; and a red stripe flanked in colorless and outlined in light blue and white appearing grey; a colorless network cane with a yellow spiral thread is attached as a rim.
Exterior polished and outer lip of rim ground back; band along one side of interior and edges also polished; dulling, pitting, and patches of iridescent weathering on interior.
Translucent cobalt blue, purple appearing semi-opaque brick red, light blue appearing green, opaque yellow and white, and colorless.
Vertical rim with beveled inner lip; convex curving side, turned in sharply towards bottom.
Striped pattern formed from lengths of different canes in parallel, diagonal lines: one cane in green; another in yellow outlined with white lines; a third in blue; a network cane in colorless with two spiral yellow threads; a cane in layered stripes of red, white, and blue; another colorless network cone with a single yellow spiral thread; a green length; a blue length outlines in white; and a red stripe flanked in colorless and outlined in light blue and white appearing grey; a colorless network cane with a yellow spiral thread is attached as a rim.
Exterior polished and outer lip of rim ground back; band along one side of interior and edges also polished; dulling, pitting, and patches of iridescent weathering on interior.
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: 1 5/8 × 2 1/8 × 1/8 in. (4.2 × 5.4 × 0.3 cm)
Estimated diameter 5 1/8 in. (13 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.396.51
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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2nd century CE
late 1st century BCE
3rd century CE
late 1st–2nd century CE
ca. 50–80 CE
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