Glass ribbed bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent honey brown; trial in opaque white. Knocked-off, ground rim; short concave neck; squat globular body curving in to broad, thick, flat bottom. Trail wound spirally from bottom around body, with one broad patch in side between ribs; sides tooled into eighteen, shallow, irregular, vertical ribs. Complete, except for large chip in rim; a few bubbles; dulling, faint iridescence, weathering of trail between ribs, and one patch of creamy brown weathering 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