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Glass mosaic bowl fragment

Thick-walled body fragment.

Translucent cobalt blue, opaque yellow, and colorless.

Convex curving side.

Mosaic pattern formed from sections of a single cane outlined with a broad band of blue in a colorless ground with a pattern of yellow rods.

Polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling and creamy weathering on interior and jagged edges.

Credit: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891

Late 1st century B.C.-early 1st century A.D.
Glass; cast
4.0 x 1.5cm
91.1.2045
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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