Glass mosaic bowl fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rim fragment. Translucent cobalt blue, deep honey yellow, opaque white, yellow, and brick red. Vertical rim with beveled edge; almost straight side, tapering downward. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections and short rectangular lengths of three canes: one in a blue ground with a ring of white dots around a white circle and central white rod; a second in a yellow ground with a circle of white dots around a central design of four red rods surrounded by white circles in a blue (?) ground, and a length in red flanked by blue layered with white; a blue cane wound spirally with a white thread is attached as a rim. Polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling, pitting, and creamy iridescent weathering on interior, edge of rim, 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