Glass mosaic bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless, translucent cobalt blue, opaque yellow, and opaque white. Outsplayed horizontal rim with rounded edge; S-shaped side tapering downwards to slightly convex bottom within applied outsplayed base ring with thick beveled edge, applied as a coil with join down one side. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of a composite cane in a colorless ground with a yellow spiral surrounding two small rings, one in blue, the other in white, and central dot in blue; interspersed with this cane are a number of irregular segments in blue with a central white stripe, and around the side and rim others in streaky yellow; the base ring is yellow streaked with blue and white threads. Intact; some bubbles; dulling, some patches of deep pitting, slight reddish brown soil encrustation, and faint 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