Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment
Body fragment.
Translucent blue, turquoise blue, purple appearing opaque brick red, turquoise blue appearing green, opaque yellow, and white, with colorless glass.
Side curving in sharply to flat bottom.
Decorated with vertical bands, forming a regular pattern: turquoise blue, red, blue layered with white, blue with single white spiral thread, green, yellow, green, blue with single white spiral thread, blue, red, blue, and turquoise.
A few pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling, pitting, iridescence, and creamy weathering on interior; some iridescent weathering on jagged edges.
Translucent blue, turquoise blue, purple appearing opaque brick red, turquoise blue appearing green, opaque yellow, and white, with colorless glass.
Side curving in sharply to flat bottom.
Decorated with vertical bands, forming a regular pattern: turquoise blue, red, blue layered with white, blue with single white spiral thread, green, yellow, green, blue with single white spiral thread, blue, red, blue, and turquoise.
A few pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling, pitting, iridescence, and creamy weathering on interior; some iridescent weathering on 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: 1 1/16 x 1 3/8 in. (2.6 x 3.4 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1769
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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