Glass cameo bowl fragment
Translucent cobalt blue with overlay in opaque white.
Outsplayed rim with flat upper edge; cylindrical body with slightly convex curving side.
On interior, horizontal groove immediately below rim and another at top of side, forming a slightly convex band around inside of rim; on exterior, two raised horizontal lines at junction of rim and side. Also on exterior, in relief in white, head of youthful satyr, tipped slightly backward and drinking from a rhyton held in raised proper right hand; on the right, part of a leafy spray or branch.
Rim fragment with large chip at left, broken at sides and bottom; dulling, slight pitting, creamy weathering, especially on and around white overlay, and faint iridescence.
Rotary grinding marks on interior.
Outsplayed rim with flat upper edge; cylindrical body with slightly convex curving side.
On interior, horizontal groove immediately below rim and another at top of side, forming a slightly convex band around inside of rim; on exterior, two raised horizontal lines at junction of rim and side. Also on exterior, in relief in white, head of youthful satyr, tipped slightly backward and drinking from a rhyton held in raised proper right hand; on the right, part of a leafy spray or branch.
Rim fragment with large chip at left, broken at sides and bottom; dulling, slight pitting, creamy weathering, especially on and around white overlay, and faint iridescence.
Rotary grinding marks on interior.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass cameo bowl fragment
- Period: Early Imperial, Augustan or Julio-Claudian
- Date: late 1st century BCE–mid-1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; cast and cut
- Dimensions: Overall: 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.367
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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