Glass mosaic bowl fragments

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent deep turquoise blue, opaque white, yellow, and red. Hemispherical bowl fragment with a vertical rim with rounded edge; convex curving side. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of a single composite cane in a turquoise ground with a yellow spiral and central dot in red; interspersed with this cane are three small irregular segments in solid white. A network cane wound spirally with blue, yellow, white, and red trails is attached as a rim. One of the white segments only appears on the interior of the side. Broken and repaired from eight pieces, with one hole in rim and another in side; on interior, dulling, pitting, and iridescent weathering, and on exterior, pitting of surface bubbles and modern polishing.

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