Glass dish

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless with very pale green tinge. Rounded rim folded out and down; straight side to body, tapering downwards then curving slightly outward; tall, integral, tubular foot ring, made by folding with deep creease on interior; almost flat bottom with thickened dome and pontil scar at center. Intact; pinprick and some elongated horizontally bubbles; dulling, pitting, iridescence, and yellowish brown weathering on exterior, with some whitish iridescent weathering on interior. Thick yellowish shallow blown glass bowl with base.

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