Glass mosaic body fragment
Translucent light blue appearing green, purple, opaque white and yellow, and colorless.
Shallow convex curving side or bottom.
Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of two alternating canes: one with stripes in yellow flanked to either side by green, and the other in alternating squares, one in yellow, another in a purple ground outlined in white and a central blue rod containing a yellow spiral and a second square in a purple ground outlined in white and a central colorless rod containing a yellow spiral.
Polished on exterior, with some pitting of surface bubbles; pitting and iridescent weathering on interior and jagged edges.
Shallow convex curving side or bottom.
Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of two alternating canes: one with stripes in yellow flanked to either side by green, and the other in alternating squares, one in yellow, another in a purple ground outlined in white and a central blue rod containing a yellow spiral and a second square in a purple ground outlined in white and a central colorless rod containing a yellow spiral.
Polished on exterior, with some pitting of surface bubbles; pitting and iridescent weathering on interior and jagged edges.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass mosaic body fragment
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; cast
- Dimensions: 15/16 × 1 1/4 × 1/16 in. (2.4 × 3.1 × 0.2 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.396.61
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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