Mosaic glass carinated bowl fragment
Translucent medium blue appearing opaque grey, honey yellow, and purple, opaque white and red.
Almost horizontal rim with rounded outer lip; carinated side, with two convex curves.
Composite mosaic patterns formed from polygonal sections of two canes in a grey ground: one in a purple ground with a circle of white rods surrounding a central white red enclosed by red and white circles, and the other in a yellow ground with a white spiral and central white rod.
Pitting of surface bubbles with slight weathering on exterior and interior; weathering on jagged edges.
Almost horizontal rim with rounded outer lip; carinated side, with two convex curves.
Composite mosaic patterns formed from polygonal sections of two canes in a grey ground: one in a purple ground with a circle of white rods surrounding a central white red enclosed by red and white circles, and the other in a yellow ground with a white spiral and central white rod.
Pitting of surface bubbles with slight weathering on exterior and interior; weathering on jagged edges.
Artwork Details
- Title: Mosaic glass carinated bowl fragment
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman, probably Italian
- Medium: Glass; cast
- Dimensions: 1 × 1 13/16 × 1/8 in. (2.5 × 4.6 × 0.2 cm)
Estimated diameter 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.396.14
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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