Glass mosaic bowl fragment

Roman

Not on view

Rim fragment.
Translucent blue and purple, opaque yellow and white, with colorless glass.
Vertical, rounded rim; convex curving side, tapering downward.
Striped mosaic pattern, formed from sections of two canes in a regular pattern: one in yellow spirally twisted threads flanked by bands of yellow, the other in a band of blue backed by white outlined by purple and white.
Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; creamy weathering and iridescence on interior and jagged edges; one edge ground flat.

Glass mosaic bowl fragment, Glass, Roman

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