Bowl

Bowl, Late 2nd century B.C.–early 1st century A.D., Cast mosaic glass, 7.8 × 14.1 cm (3 1/16 × 5 9/16 in.), This hemispherical bowl is an example of ancient mosaic glass, a type of highly colorful glassware that attained its greatest popularity in the second and first centuries B.C. The mosaic decoration (sometimes anachronistically called millefiori after Venetian glass decorated in the same way) was achieved by arranging separate pieces of glass–often with colorful patterns already worked into them–in a mold and fusing them with heat in an oven or kiln. In this case, spirals of yellow with blue and white accents, combined with tesserae of purple, green, white, and blue, were set within a colorless matrix. A twisted band of blue and white was wrapped around the rim of the bowl., Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, Hellenistic or Roman, Containers - Glass. (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Bowl, Late 2nd century B.C.–early 1st century A.D., Cast mosaic glass, 7.8 × 14.1 cm (3 1/16 × 5 9/16 in.), This hemispherical bowl is an example of ancient mosaic glass, a type of highly colorful glassware that attained its greatest popularity in the second and first centuries B.C. The mosaic decoration (sometimes anachronistically called millefiori after Venetian glass decorated in the same way) was achieved by arranging separate pieces of glass–often with colorful patterns already worked into them–in a mold and fusing them with heat in an oven or kiln. In this case, spirals of yellow with blue and white accents, combined with tesserae of purple, green, white, and blue, were set within a colorless matrix. A twisted band of blue and white was wrapped around the rim of the bowl., Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, Hellenistic or Roman, Containers - Glass. (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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Sepia Times / Contributor
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01 January, 2018
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