Glass striped mosaic bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent purple and blue, opaque white and yellow, and colorless glass. Vertical rim with rounded edge; almost vertical side curving in below to concave bottom. Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of two alternating canes laid side by side in ten parallel rows and separated from one another by single lengths of a network cane in cololress glass wound spirally with two yellow threads; one cane comprises a central length of purple outlined in white and flanked by blue stripes, and the other comprises a central length of blue outlined in white and flanked by yellow stripes; a blue network cane wound spirally with a single white thread is attached as rim. Broken and repaired from many fragments with numerous losses; some pinprick bubbles; slight dulling and faint iridescent weathering.

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