Glass mosaic bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent purple body with opaque white and opaque red; color(s) of base ring uncertain. Horizontal rim with rounded, slightly downturned edge; carinated side, with two convex curves, the upper being shallow and the lower deep; convex bottom within applied outsplayed base ring with rounded edge. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of a single cane in a purple ground with numerous white rods surrounding a white circle filled with a red rod. Intact; slight pitting, dulling, and patches of iridescent weathering on interior and covering all of exterior and base ring.

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