Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment
Rim fragment.
Translucent blue, purple appearing opaque brick red, blue and yellow mixed together appearing dull green, yellow, and white, with colorless glass.
Applied coil rim with rounded, vertical lip; straight side, curving inward slightly at bottom.
Rim in colorless glass with white thread; body decorated with bands slanting from top left to bottom right, forming a regular pattern: colorless with spiral yellow thread, green, pale blue mixed with white, green, colorless with spiral yellow thread, blue, red, blue, colorless with spiral yellow thread.
A few pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and faint iridescent weathering on interior and iridescent weathering on edges.
Translucent blue, purple appearing opaque brick red, blue and yellow mixed together appearing dull green, yellow, and white, with colorless glass.
Applied coil rim with rounded, vertical lip; straight side, curving inward slightly at bottom.
Rim in colorless glass with white thread; body decorated with bands slanting from top left to bottom right, forming a regular pattern: colorless with spiral yellow thread, green, pale blue mixed with white, green, colorless with spiral yellow thread, blue, red, blue, colorless with spiral yellow thread.
A few pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and faint iridescent weathering on interior and iridescent weathering on edges.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; cast
- Dimensions: H.: 1 1/4 x 1 1/16 in. (3.2 x 2.7 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1687
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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500–550, with modern restoration
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end of 1st century BCE–beginning of 1st century CE
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1st half of 1st century CE
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ca. 1st–3rd century CE
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