Glass ribbed bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale streaky purple; trail in opaque white. Knocked-off, uneven rim; short concave neck; squat globular body curving in to flat, thick bottom. Trail wound spirally around body, with large circular patch on bottom, ending in a fine trail on shoulder; side tooled into twenty-three irregular, vertical ribs. Intact, except for large chip in rim; some bubbles and a few gritty inclusions; dulling, faint iridescence and weathering, and pitting of broad trail around lower body. Reddish amethyst bowl with white wavy lines and bottom.

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