Glass network mosaic bowl fragment
Rim fragment.
Translucent blue, opaque white, and colorless.
Applied coil rim with rounded lip; slightly convex curving side, tapering downward.
Rim in blue with fine double white spiral threads; body decorated with eleven colorless narrow canes slanting from top right to bottom left, decorated with two spirally twisted white threads.
Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and creamy iridescent weathering on interior, rim, and jagged edges.
The body of the vessel, probably a hemispherical bowl, is decorated with lengths of glass comprising a colorless cane wound spirally with parallel threads in opaque white glass. The rim is marked by a separate cane of blue and white threads.
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