Glass gold-band mosaic bottle 1st half of 1st century A.D. Roman Translucent cobalt blue, purple, and emerald green, opaque white, and colorless encasing gold leaf.Everted, horizontal rim with rounded outer lip; cylindrical neck; squat globular body; flat bottom.Gold-band mosaic pattern formed from a single serpentine length of layered canes formed in the following order: purple outlined in white, blue, colorless with gold leaf, green, white, and purple; the length is wound three times round body, being fused together across bottom.Intact, except for one weathered chip in top layer on side of body; slight dulling and pitting, small patches of whitish iridescent weathering; encrustation on inside of neck.Rotary grinding marks on exterior.Gold-band cast glass was a particularly opulent type of early Roman glassware. It combines canes of brightly colored translucent and opaque glass with strips of gold leaf encased between layers of colorless glass. Only a limited number of vessel shapes

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Glass gold-band mosaic bottle 1st half of 1st century A.D. Roman Translucent cobalt blue, purple, and emerald green, opaque white, and colorless encasing gold leaf.Everted, horizontal rim with rounded outer lip; cylindrical neck; squat globular body; flat bottom.Gold-band mosaic pattern formed from a single serpentine length of layered canes formed in the following order: purple outlined in white, blue, colorless with gold leaf, green, white, and purple; the length is wound three times round body, being fused together across bottom.Intact, except for one weathered chip in top layer on side of body; slight dulling and pitting, small patches of whitish iridescent weathering; encrustation on inside of neck.Rotary grinding marks on exterior.Gold-band cast glass was a particularly opulent type of early Roman glassware. It combines canes of brightly colored translucent and opaque glass with strips of gold leaf encased between layers of colorless glass. Only a limited number of vessel shapes

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