Glass ribbed bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green. Plain rounded rim; sides curving in to slightly uneven, flat bottom. On exterior, fourteen prominent, almost vertical ribs with flattened angular tops, tapering downwards and extending in vestigal form on bottom, with vertical tooling indents flanking some of ribs. Intact; a few pinprick and larger bubbles; dulling on interior and around top of exterior, and very faint weathering. Rotary grinding marks on interior. Bluish ribbed cup.

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