Glass network mosaic bowl with base ring

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent greenish yellow, translucent cobalt blue, and opaque white. Outsplayed horizontal rim with rounded edge; S-shaped side tapering downwards to flat bottom within applied outsplayed base ring with thick rounded edge. Network mosaic pattern formed from lengths of two canes laid side by side across body in a pattern comprising a single blue cane flanked to either side by a pair of yellow canes; the blue and yellow canes each wound spirally with two parallel white threads; a yellow network cane also wound spirally with a double white thread is attached as rim; the base ring is yellow streaked with blue and white threads. Broken and repaired, with two areas of fill in rim and jagged hole in base ring; some bubbles; dulling, pitting, and faint browning weathering.

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