Mosaics
Group of sixteen glass tesserae and shards
Description
This group of sixteen glass pieces consists of both tesserae (pieces used to form mosaics) and shard (broken pieces of glass). The fragments range in color from an opaque blue to opaque green to transluscent yellow-green.
Provenance
Miss. E. Bayliss, gift; to the Department of the Classics Harvard University, 1913, transfer; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1977.
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