Glass bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; trails in same color. Outsplayed rim, with rounded lip; side of body tapers downwards, then curves inwards; tall, splayed tubular foot, made by folding; thick, conical bottom, flattened at center by pontil mark. A fine trail applied horizontally around base of side; another thicker trail applied over it and wound round side in an irregular, curving zigzag pattern, ending in a long trail under rim. Intact; pinprick bubbles and blowing striations, with a few black impurities; dulling, patches of whitish weathering, and some 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