Glass striped mosaic body fragment
Translucent blue, purple, honey yellow, and turquoise blue layered with opaque yellow appearing green, opaque white, and colorless.
Convex-curving side.
Striped mosaic pattern formed from two broad canes laid side by side in parallel rows separated from one another by a single length of a network cane in colorless with a double spiral yellow thread: one cane comprises strips in green white, and purple with a central white line, and the other in a blue strip flanked by white and purple stripes, honey yellow layered with white, and blue with irregular white streaks.
Polished on exterior, with some pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and iridescent weathering on interior and jagged edges.
Convex-curving side.
Striped mosaic pattern formed from two broad canes laid side by side in parallel rows separated from one another by a single length of a network cane in colorless with a double spiral yellow thread: one cane comprises strips in green white, and purple with a central white line, and the other in a blue strip flanked by white and purple stripes, honey yellow layered with white, and blue with irregular white streaks.
Polished on exterior, with some pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and iridescent weathering on interior and jagged edges.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass striped mosaic body fragment
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; cast
- Dimensions: 1 3/16 × 5/8 × 1/16 in. (3.1 × 1.6 × 0.2 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.396.63
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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