Glass network mosaic fragment

Glass network mosaic fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rim fragment. Colorless and translucent deep honey brown, with opaque white. Applied coil rim with thick, rounded lip; slightly curving side, becoming thinner towards bottom. Rim in brown with white spiral thread; body decorated with six parallel horizontal canes decorated with single spirally twisted threads. Many pinprick bubbles; exterior polished; pitting of surface bubbles; jagged weathered edges; dulling and weathering on interior.

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.