Glass mosaic carinated bowl fragment
Body fragment.
Translucent purple, light blue appearing green, opaque white and yellow, and colorless.
Part of two convex curves, the upper narrow and sharply curving, the lower deeper and tapering downward.
Mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of three canes: one in a purple ground outlined in white with a circle of yellow rods; another in a blue ground with a yellow spiral, and a third in a colorless ground with a yellow spiral. All canes distorted.
Polished interior; pitting of surface bubbles and some deep iridescent weathering on interior; dulling, thick black weathering, and some iridescence on exterior and jagged edges.
Translucent purple, light blue appearing green, opaque white and yellow, and colorless.
Part of two convex curves, the upper narrow and sharply curving, the lower deeper and tapering downward.
Mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of three canes: one in a purple ground outlined in white with a circle of yellow rods; another in a blue ground with a yellow spiral, and a third in a colorless ground with a yellow spiral. All canes distorted.
Polished interior; pitting of surface bubbles and some deep iridescent weathering on interior; dulling, thick black weathering, and some iridescence on exterior and jagged edges.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass mosaic carinated bowl fragment
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; cast
- Dimensions: Other: 3/4 x 1 in. (2 x 2.6 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1942
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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