Glass ribbed bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green. Vertical rim with rounded top edge; plain band sloping obliquely outward around top of sides, then bulging outward before curving in sharply to flat bottom. On interior, four concentric grooves: one just below rim, two in a band at junction of side and bottom, and one small, broader circle at center; on exterior, eighty-two short, close-set, and sharply defined vertical ribs of slightly varying length and width, with tops ground off, arranged around the bulging middle section of body. Intact, but several internal cracks around rim; few bubbles; large areas of iridescent creamy brown weathering. Rotary grinding marks on plain band around top of sides and on interior.

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