Glass mosaic carinated bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent purple, opaque white, yellow, red, and pale bluish green. Vertical rim with angular edge; carinated side, with upper slightly bulging vertical curve and lower convex curve; flat bottom within slightly outsplayed base ring with flattened edge. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of a single cane in purple ground outlined in opaque white containing concentric circles of bluish green and red with a central yellow dot. A narrow horizontal ridge cut on top edge of rim and another narrow horizontal groove just below rim on exterior. Complete except for two holes in rim; some pitting and dulling, creamy brown iridescent weathering on interior, and patches of iridescent weathering on exterior. Rotary grinding marks on exterior.

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