Glass network mosaic fragment
Unknown Artist
Body fragment.
Colorless, with opaque white.
Convex side.
Ten narrow vertical canes decorated with two spirally twisted threads.
Pinprick bubbles; rough edges and exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; patches of creamy 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
3.2 x 4.1 cm
91.1.1695
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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