Glass ribbed bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent purple; trail in opaque white. Plain, vertical rim; short concave neck; globular body curving in to flat bottom. One trail wound around rim; another trail wound spirally three times around neck; a third trail applied on bottom and wound spirally nine times up body; sides tooled into fifteen irregular, vertical ribs. Intact, except for two weathered chips in rim; pitting of surface bubbles and creamy iridescent weathering, especially on trails. Violet, with white enamel decoration.

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