Glass mosaic vessel fragment

Roman

Not on view

Translucent blue, partially layered with opaque yellow and appearing dull green, opaque white and yellow, and colorless.

Very shallow convex-curving side or bottom.

Pattern formed from short irregular lengths of four canes: one in colorless, a second in yellow, a third in green outlined in yellow, and a fourth comprising a blue square outlined in white and blue.

Broken into two conjoining pieces; polished on exterior, with some pitting of surface bubbles; pitting, dulling and iridescent weathering on interior and edges.

Glass mosaic vessel fragment, Glass, Roman

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