Glass mosaic inlay

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Opaque yellow ground; decoration in opaque white, red, and greyish green, and translucent deep purple appearing black. Narrow horizontal strip, tapering slightly towards the right and rounded right edge. Asymmetrical repetitive floral motif with palmettes, lotus buds, and stems flanked by four ivy leaves. Broken and repaired with some cracks and losses; upper, underside, and edges ground and polished; deep pitting of some surface bubbles. This piece is cut from the same mosaic glass bar as 17.194.377, but decoration appears in mirror image.

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