Glass mosaic bowl fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rim fragment, probably from a large ribbed and footd bowl. Translucent cobalt blue and opaque white. Outsplayed, almost horizontal rim with rounded edge; concave curving neck to side, tapering downward . Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of a single cane in a blue ground with a ring of white rods around a white circle and a central white rod. Polished interior; pitting and slight weathering of surface bubbles on interior; iridescence and creamy weathering on exterior, outer edge of rim, and jagged edges. Possibly from the same vessel as 91.1.1971.

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