Glass mosaic ribbed bowl fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rim fragment. Translucent honey brown, cobalt blue, and opaque white. Outsplayed rim with thick, rounded edge; straight side tapering downward. Ribbon mosaic pattern formed from sections of a single cane in brown ground with irregular wavy white and blue threads in parallel horizontal lines; on exterior, three vertical ribs, unevenly spaced, with flattened tops and rounded outer edges. Polished interior; pitting of surface bubbles and cracks on interior; dulling and creamy iridescent weathering on exterior and jagged edges. The fragment probably belongs to deep bowl with a base ring, similar to 17.194.262.

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