1st century BC-1st century AD. A mosaic glass cup decorated with star canes, the opaque black and orange centres surrounded by opaque yellow rays embedded in the dark green matrix; globular waisted body, small flared foot and wide everted rim. Cf. Goldstein, S.M., Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 1979, p.185, items 491, 492; see also Goldstein, S.M., Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 1979, p.145, items 297-302, for type. 30.4 grams, 61mm wide (2 1/4"). Property of a London lady, part of her family's Swiss collection; formerly acquired in the 1980s. Fine condition, repaired.