Ribbed mosaic glass bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue and purple, and opaque white. Outsplayed horizontal rim, with thick, uneven, rounded edge; convex curving side, tapering downwards. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of three canes: one in a blue ground with a white irregular square surrounding a central white dot; another in a blue ground with with white dots around a purple circle outlined in white with a central white dot; and one in a purple ground with an irregular pattern of white dots; on exterior, fourteen obliquely curving ribs extending from below rim to undercurve of side. Broken and repaired, with holes in rim and side, most of bottom, and all of base ring missing; dulling, pitting, and slight iridescent weathering. The bowl originally would have had a base ring similar to 17.194.262.

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