Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment
Rim fragment.
Translucent cobalt blue, purple, opaque white and yellow, and colorless.
Applied coil rim with rounded edge; almost vertical side.
Rim in purple with single spiral thread in white; body decorated with striped quadripartite pattern formed from lengths of different canes: one in colorless layered with purple and flanked by white; a colorless network cane wound spirally with two yellow threads; blue layered with white; polygonal cane in a purple ground with a circle of yellow dots and a central blue rod surrounded by a white circle, alternating with a square cane in colorless layered with white; a colorless network cane wound spirally with two yellow threads; and a cane in colorless layered with yellow. Rotary grinding marks on interior.
Chipped edges and interior; polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; pitting, dulling, and faint iridescent weathering on interior and jagged edges.
Translucent cobalt blue, purple, opaque white and yellow, and colorless.
Applied coil rim with rounded edge; almost vertical side.
Rim in purple with single spiral thread in white; body decorated with striped quadripartite pattern formed from lengths of different canes: one in colorless layered with purple and flanked by white; a colorless network cane wound spirally with two yellow threads; blue layered with white; polygonal cane in a purple ground with a circle of yellow dots and a central blue rod surrounded by a white circle, alternating with a square cane in colorless layered with white; a colorless network cane wound spirally with two yellow threads; and a cane in colorless layered with yellow. Rotary grinding marks on interior.
Chipped edges and interior; polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; pitting, dulling, and faint iridescent weathering on interior and jagged edges.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; cast
- Dimensions: Other: 3/4 x 1 3/16 in. (1.9 x 3.1 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1926
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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