Glass mosaic bowl fragment

Roman

Not on view

Body fragment.
Translucent blue, purple layered with white appearing opaque brick red, opaque yellow, white, and colorless.
Sharply curving side.
Body decorated with short-strip mosaic pattern formed from rectangular lengths of two canes set randomly or at right angles to one another: one in blue with white circle and central dot, the other in bands of blue streaked with white, red, yellow, white, and colorless.
Exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and creamy weathering on interior, and some iridescent weathering on edges.

Glass mosaic bowl fragment, Glass, Roman

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