Glass mosaic ribbed bowl fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Body fragment. Translucent honey brown, cobalt blue, opaque white and yellow. Almost straight side, tapering downward. Mosaic pattern formed from large polygonal sections of a single cane in brown containing a circle of white dots outlined in white, another circle inside in blue also containing a circle of white dots and outlined in white, and a central blue circle appearing green outlined in yellow; on exterior, part of two vertical ribs, tapering slightly downward. Polished on interior, cracking and pitting of surface bubbles on interior; dulling, pitting, and creamy iridescent weathering on exterior and jagged edges.

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