Glass ribbed bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent honey yellow; trail in opaque white. Knocked-off, ground rim; short concave neck; horizontal bulging collar below; squat globular body curving in to almost flat bottom. Trail wound spirally from bottom around body to neck, thick at bottom, but fine and thin at top; twenty-seven, shallow, slightly irregular, vertical ribs, extending from bulge below neck to undercurve of side. Intact, except for one small, weathered chip in rim; a few bubbles; dulling and pitting of surface bubbles, most of surfaces covered with thick white weathering and iridescence.

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