Glass gold-band mosaic bowl fragment

Roman

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Rim fragment.
Translucent cobalt blue, deep honey brown, turquoise green, opaque white, and colorless enclosing gold leaf.
Applied vertical coil rim, with slightly rounded top edge; convex curving side tapering downward.
Rim in blue with white spiral thread; body decorated with gold-band mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of serpentine layered canes in combinations of blue with white central line, brown with white central line, colorless glass with gold leaf, and green.
Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles and joins between canes; creamy weathering on interior and some iridescent weathering on edges.

Glass gold-band mosaic bowl fragment, Glass, Roman

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