Glass mosaic bowl fragment

Roman

Not on view

Translucent cobalt blue, opaque white, and colorless with bluish tinge.

Vertical rim with flat lip; almost vertical side, sloping gently inwards, then curved sharply in to bottom.

Composite mosaic pattern formed from sections of a single cane in a colorless ground with irregular white rods surrounding a blue circle dotted with white rods. A wide blue network cane would spirally with a white thread is attached as a rim.

Polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles and slight weathering on exterior; creamy brown weathering and iridescence on interior; some iridescent weathering on jagged edges

Glass mosaic bowl fragment, Glass, Roman

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