Glass garland bowl, Early Imperial, Augustan, late 1st century , Roman, Glass; cast and cut, H. 1 1/2 in. ( cm), diameter

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Glass garland bowl, Early Imperial, Augustan, late 1st century , Roman, Glass; cast and cut, H. 1 1/2 in. ( cm), diameter 7 1/8 in. ( cm), Glass, Colorless, translucent purple, translucent honey yellow, translucent cobalt blue, opaque yellow, and opaque white. Vertical, angular rim; convex curving side, tapering downwards; convex bottom. Four large segments of colorless, purple, yellow, and blue, and applied to the interior of the bowl at the center of each segment a hanging garland, comprising an inverted V-shaped white string above a U-shaped swag made up of a mosaic pattern formed from polgonal or circular sections of four different composite canes: one in a yellow ground with a white spiral, a second in a purple ground with yellow rods, the third in a colorless ground with white lines raditating from a central yellow rod, and the fourth in a blue ground a white spiral

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