Glass ribbed bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent honey brown. Slightly outsplayed rim with almost pointed top edge and plain inward-sloping band below, deep convex side curving in to slightly concave bottom. On interior, a single broad and deep horizontal groove below rim, and a band of three (?) narrow, close-set shallow grooves around middle of body; on exterior, seventeen long, vertical ribs with flattened tops, tapering downwards, and extending to edge of bottom. Broken and repaired with numerous cracks and one chip missing from rim; many pinprick bubbles; dulling, deep pitting, and patches of brilliant iridescence. Rotary grinding marks on interior and on plain band 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