Glass striped mosaic cup fragment
Rim and side of a cup or beaker.
Translucent blue, purple appearing honey brown, light blue appearing green, opaque yellow and white, and colorless.
Vertical, rounded rim; straight side, slanting in downward.
Striped pattern formed from lengths of different canes, repeated in parallel, almost vertical lines in a combination of lengths and network canes, including one cane in yellow outlined in white, flanked by honey brown, and colorless network canes with white spiral threads; another in fine lengths of blue, green and white together with purple network canes with yellow spiral threads; and a third with lengths in cobalt and turquoise blue with a blue network cane with a white spiral thread. A broad colorless network cane with a double spiral thread is attached as a rim. On exterior below rim, a deep horizontal curved groove flanked above and below with a fine incised line.
Interior polished; dulling, pitting, and patches of iridescent weathering on exterior; some weathering on jagged edges.
Translucent blue, purple appearing honey brown, light blue appearing green, opaque yellow and white, and colorless.
Vertical, rounded rim; straight side, slanting in downward.
Striped pattern formed from lengths of different canes, repeated in parallel, almost vertical lines in a combination of lengths and network canes, including one cane in yellow outlined in white, flanked by honey brown, and colorless network canes with white spiral threads; another in fine lengths of blue, green and white together with purple network canes with yellow spiral threads; and a third with lengths in cobalt and turquoise blue with a blue network cane with a white spiral thread. A broad colorless network cane with a double spiral thread is attached as a rim. On exterior below rim, a deep horizontal curved groove flanked above and below with a fine incised line.
Interior polished; dulling, pitting, and patches of iridescent weathering on exterior; some weathering on jagged edges.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass striped mosaic cup fragment
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; cast and cut
- Dimensions: 1 5/8 × 1 5/16 × 1/8 in. (4.1 × 3.4 × 0.3 cm)
Estimated diameter 2 5/8 in. (6.6. cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.396.52
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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