Glass mosaic ribbed bowl fragment
Not on view
Part of a deep ribbed bowl.
Translucent blue, purple, and opaque white.
Side outsplayed at top, straight below and slanting in downward.
On exterior, top part of a single, squarish rib, tapering into side at top; composite mosaic pattern formed from sections of three canes: one in a purple ground with a scatter of white rods around a blue ground outlined in white with a central white rod; the second in a blue ground with a white spiral, and the third in a blue ground fringed in purple around a blue square outlined in white and a central white rod.
Polished on interior, with pitting of surface bubbles and some weathering; dulling, weathering, and slight iridescence on interior and edges.
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