Glass monochrome dish fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fragment of footed dish. Opaque red. Flat interior, slanting downward towards center; on exterior, thick solid angular foot ring, slanting outward. Polished interior and exterior of foot ring; pitting of surface bubbles and weathering of chip on interior; gritty encrustation and thick green weathering on exterior and broken edges. The rest of the side that extended beyond the foot ring has probably been ground away in recent times.

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