Glass striped mosaic fragment
Body fragment.
Translucent blue, purple, opaque brick red, yellow, and white, with colorless glass.
Wavy curving side.
Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of different canes laid in regular, parallel bands: colorless with a double spiral yellow thread, yellow, colorless with a double spiral yellow thread, purple layered with blue and with a white streak, colorless with two overlapping spiral yellow threads, white, colorless with two overlapping spiral yellow threads, and white largely layered on both sides with red.
Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and faint iridescent weathering on interior and jagged edges.
Translucent blue, purple, opaque brick red, yellow, and white, with colorless glass.
Wavy curving side.
Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of different canes laid in regular, parallel bands: colorless with a double spiral yellow thread, yellow, colorless with a double spiral yellow thread, purple layered with blue and with a white streak, colorless with two overlapping spiral yellow threads, white, colorless with two overlapping spiral yellow threads, and white largely layered on both sides with red.
Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and faint iridescent weathering on interior and jagged edges.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass striped mosaic fragment
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; cast
- Dimensions: Overall: 1 1/4 x 1 1/4 in. (3.2 x 3.2 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1734
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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