Glass bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless with pale green tinge and light purple streaks; base and trail in same colors. Horizontal rounded and thickened rim with slight downward kink on one side; broad, flaring mouth; funnel-shaped sides to body, turned in sharply below; applied flaring base with thick tubular ring; uneven but flat bottom with off-center pontil scar. Bowl stands aslant on base ring. Fine trail applied on underside of mouth, wound 2 1/2 times around top of body, and then trailed off backwards. Intact; pinprick and larger bubbles; very slight weathering and iridescence. Shallow colorless blown glass bowl with high foot and glass thread around neck.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. The geographic regions represented are Greece and Italy, but not as delimited by modern political frontiers: Greek colonies were established around the Mediterranean basin and on the shores of the Black Sea, and Cyprus became increasingly Hellenized. For Roman art, the geographical limits coincide with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The department also exhibits the art of prehistoric Greece (Helladic, Cycladic, and Minoan) and pre-Roman art of Italic peoples, notably the Etruscans.

Metropolitan Museum of Art