Glass ribbed bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue; trail in opaque white. Outsplayed rim, with cracked off and ground lip; short concave neck; globular body curving in to shallow convex bottom. Trail applied as a large blob and wound spirally on bottom and then up side to neck; side tooled into seventeen irregular, vertical or slanting ribs. Intact, but parts of trail missing through weathering; many bubbles, some large; pitting of surface bubbles, dulling, iridescence, and patches of creamy weathering, especially around ribs. Bright blue bowl with white thread decoration, vertical ribs.

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