Glass conical bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent honey brown. Upright rounded but uneven rim; undulating side, tapering diagonally downward; convex bottom. On interior, a single horizontal groove below rim, cut irregularly. Broken and repaired, with one hole and several chips in side; internal strain cracks around rim; some bubbles; one patch of whitish iridescent weathering below rim on exterior, and dulling and faint weathering on interior. Rotary grinding marks on interior; some irregular tooling marks below rim 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