Glass gold-band mosaic bowl fragment
Unknown Artist
Body fragment.
Translucent cobalt blue, turquoise blue, green, purple, opaque white, and colorless enclosing gold leaf.
Convex curving side and bottom.
Gold-band mosaic pattern formed from sections of layered canes in bands of blue, colorless glass with gold leaf, turquoise blue and green, turquoise blue, white, and purple.
A few pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with slight pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and weathering on interior and edges.
Credit: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
Late 1st century B.C.-early 1st century A.D.
Glass; cast
2.2 x 3.7 cm
91.1.1850
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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