Striped mosaic glass lens-shaped dish fragment
Translucent cobalt blue, partially appearing light blue or green, opaque yellow, white, and red, and colorless.
Upright, rounded rim; shallow, convex curving side.
Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of two composite canes and squarish sections laid side by side in parallel rows: one cane in green, blue, red, and yellow stripes arranged in a mirror pattern on either side of a blue stripe, and the other in blue, light blue, red, and yellow stripes arranged in a mirror pattern on either side of a blue stripe; a blue network cane wound with a white thread; and three squares arranged in a row, one in white, the second in a blue ground with rods in concentric white, blue, and white circles and a central red dot, and the third in stripes of streaky blue, white, and purple, flanked by a single blue network cane with a yellow spiral thread. A broad blue network cane with a colorless spiral thread outlined in white is attached as a rim.
Polished on interior, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and creamy weathering on exterior and jagged edges.
Upright, rounded rim; shallow, convex curving side.
Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of two composite canes and squarish sections laid side by side in parallel rows: one cane in green, blue, red, and yellow stripes arranged in a mirror pattern on either side of a blue stripe, and the other in blue, light blue, red, and yellow stripes arranged in a mirror pattern on either side of a blue stripe; a blue network cane wound with a white thread; and three squares arranged in a row, one in white, the second in a blue ground with rods in concentric white, blue, and white circles and a central red dot, and the third in stripes of streaky blue, white, and purple, flanked by a single blue network cane with a yellow spiral thread. A broad blue network cane with a colorless spiral thread outlined in white is attached as a rim.
Polished on interior, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and creamy weathering on exterior and jagged edges.
Artwork Details
- Title: Striped mosaic glass lens-shaped dish fragment
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; cast
- Dimensions: 1 1/16 × 1 9/16 × 1/8 in. (2.6 × 4 × 0.3 cm)
Estimated diameter: 3 9/16 in. (9 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.396.57
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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