Glass bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless; handle trails in same glass. Broad, outsplayed rim, turned up, round, down, and under; short convex side to body; tubular, slightly outsplayed, low foot ring, made by folding; downward rounded ridge around edge of bottom, pushed-in center with circular pontil mark, forming domed base to interior of bowl; two handles applied on opposite sides of rim, tooled to form a row of alternating vertical ridges and furrows. Intact; pinprick bubbles; dulling, pitting, creamy brown weathering, and iridescence. Small, with boss in center and plastic 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