Glass network mosaic bowl fragment

Glass network mosaic bowl fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rim fragment. Translucent turquoise blue, purple appearing opaque brick red, opaque white, and colorless. Applied coil rim with almost flat lip; slightly tapering side, then curving inward at bottom. Rim in blue with purple spiral thread; body decorated with eleven colorless canes decorated with two spirally twisted white threads. Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling, pitting, and small patches of creamy iridescence weathering on interior, and some iridescent weathering on edges.

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.