Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment
Translucent cobalt blue, partially appearing green, opaque yellow, white, and red, and colorless.
Vertical rounded rim; slightly convex curving side of deep bowl, turned in towards bottom.
Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of two alternating canes laid side by side in parallel rows and separated from one another by single lengths of a colorless network cane wound with a double spiral thread: one composite cane comprising two red stripes encasing white and flanking a blue stripe encasing white, and a narrow blue stripe encasing yellow at right; the other with a central yellow length flanked by red stripes, flanked by blue stripes encasing yellow. A separate square length of the second cane is added at top below rim. A colorless network cane wound spirally with two yellow threads is attached as a rim.
Polished exterior; slight pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling, pitting, and whitish iridescent weathering on interior; some weathering on jagged edges.
Vertical rounded rim; slightly convex curving side of deep bowl, turned in towards bottom.
Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of two alternating canes laid side by side in parallel rows and separated from one another by single lengths of a colorless network cane wound with a double spiral thread: one composite cane comprising two red stripes encasing white and flanking a blue stripe encasing white, and a narrow blue stripe encasing yellow at right; the other with a central yellow length flanked by red stripes, flanked by blue stripes encasing yellow. A separate square length of the second cane is added at top below rim. A colorless network cane wound spirally with two yellow threads is attached as a rim.
Polished exterior; slight pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling, pitting, and whitish iridescent weathering on interior; some weathering on jagged edges.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman, probably Italian
- Medium: Glass; cast
- Dimensions: 1 5/8 × 1 1/16 × 1/8 in. (4.1 × 2.6 × 0.3 cm)
Estimated diameter 3 15/15 in. (10 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.396.45
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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