Glass dish

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless with slight blue green tinge. Slightly everted, rounded, vertical rim, with solid horizontal rib below; short side to body, tapering downwards, then turned in to concave floor; outsplayed, tubular, base ring, made by folding; almost flat bottom, thickened at center with slight dome on interior and circular pontil mark on exterior. Intact; a few pinprick bubbles; some pitting, but most of surfaces covered with thick creamy weathering and brilliant 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