Glass mosaic bowl fragment
Unknown Artist
Body fragment.
Translucent deep honey brown, cobalt blue, and opaque white.
Part of convex side.
Spiral mosaic pattern formed from sections of a single cane in brown ground with white and blue threads in parallel horizontal lines.
Polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles and weathering of small chipped areas; dulling and creamy weathering on interior and edges.
The fragment appears to have been cut down into this shape in antiquity.
Credit: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
Late 1st century B.C.-early 1st century A.D.
Glass; cast
3.5 x 3.8cm
91.1.1738
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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