Glass short-strip mosaic bowl fragment.
Unknown Artist
Rim fragment.
Translucent purple, greyish blue, layered blue green appearing yellow green, opaque white, yellow, and brick red, and colorless.
Vertical rim with rounded edge; side slanting downward and curving in at bottom.
Short-strip mosaic pattern formed from rectangular lengths in white, green, and red; a strip in blue with a white spiral thread, and a square in a purple ground with a checkerboard pattern of five white rods; a colorless cane wound spirally with a double yellow thread is attached as a rim.
Polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling, pitting, and iridescent weathering on interior, edge of rim, 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
2.3 x 2.2 cm
91.1.1976
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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