Glass mosaic bowl fragment

Roman

Not on view

Translucent blue-green appearing green, opaque yellow and white.

Vertical rim, slightly beveled inward; vertical, slightly concave curving side.

Mosaic pattern formed from sections of a single cane in a blue green ground with random yellow rods. A blue green network cane wound spirally with thin white threads is attached as a rim.

Polished exterior and rim, leaving only traces of the spiral threads, and one straight edge ground flat; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling, slight pitting, and creamy weathering and iridescence on interior; weathering on one jagged edge.

Glass mosaic bowl fragment, Glass, Roman

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