Glass base fragment

Glass base fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless. Integral, tubular base with rounded edge; horizontal upper side, then curving up and inward as short, broad pedestal to bottom edge of body; deep, conical kick at center of bottom, with pontil scar around apex. Complete base, broken off from body of vessel; pinprick and a few larger bubbles; dulling and iridescent weathering, with thicker creamy weathering inside kick.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.