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Glass short-strip mosaic vessel fragment

late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE
Not on view
Translucent cobalt blue, turquoise blue, and honey yellow, opaque white, and colorless.

Thin-walled curving body fragment.

Short-strip mosaic pattern formed from sections of composite canes set randomly together: one cane in cobalt blue ground with white circle surrounding a central white rod, and another consists of strips of cobalt and turquoise blue; other canes combine these colors with honey yellow and colorless in patterns that are too fragmentary to reconstruct.

Polished exterior; pitting of surface lines between canes on exterior; dulling, pitting, and slight iridescence on interior; weathering on all jagged edges.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Glass short-strip mosaic vessel fragment
  • Period: Early Imperial
  • Date: late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE
  • Culture: Roman
  • Medium: Glass; cast
  • Dimensions: 5/8 × 1 1/16 × 1/16 in. (1.7 × 2.7 × 0.2 cm)
  • Classification: Glass
  • Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
  • Object Number: 17.194.396.7
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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