Glass dish

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale greyish green strongly tinged with purple; handles in same color. Broad tubular rim, made by folding out and down; almost horizontal shoulder; S-shaped side to body; tubular base-ring, made by folding; bottom almost flat but with a thick dome at center with traces of large circular pontil mark; two handles trailed along edge of rim from right to left. On handles, vertical tooling to make a series of alternating ridges and grooves. Intact; a few pinprick and two large bubbles; slight pitting and faint iridescent weathering. With raised decoration on rim.

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