Glass ribbed bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue. Slightly outsplayed rounded rim; deep sides with plain band around top, curving in to slightly concave bottom. On interior, one wide horizontal groove below rim, and two narrow, close-set abraded grooves cut in a band around middle of body; on exterior, twenty-five long, shallow, vertical ribs, tapering downwards and extending to edge of bottom. Intact, but some internal cracks; pinprick bubbles; dulling, briiliant iridescence, and patches of thick creamy weathering. Rotary grinding marks on interior and on plain band around top of sides.

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