Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue and purple, opaque white and yellow, with colorless glass. Convex curving side. Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of canes laid side by side in parallel rows and separated from one another by single lengths of a network cane in colorless glass wound spirally with two opaque yellow threads; one cane comprises a length of purple flanked on one side by a length of colorless glass overlaid with white and yellow, and the other comprises a length of blue overlaid with two yellow stripes. Broken on all sides; some pinprick bubbles; slight pitting on polished exterior, creamy white iridescent weathering on interior.

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