Glass ribbed bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue. Thick, slightly outsplayed rim with almost pointed edge, sloping inward below; convex curving side, tapering obliquely downward; concave bottom. On interior, a single broad horizontal groove, cut at junction of rim and side; on exterior, forty-five short rounded ribs of varying width, thickness, and length. Intact, except for minor chips in rim; some pinprick bubbles; faint dulling and iridescence, with small patches of encrusted weathering on interior. Rotary grinding marks on interior and on band around exterior of rim; series of irregular tooling marks and indents on band around exterior of rim.

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