Glass mosaic carinated bowl fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rim fragment. Translucent deep purple, deep turquoise blue partially mixed with opaque yellow and appearing green, opaque white, yellow, and red. Outsplayed rim with rounded edge; carinated side, with two convex curves, the upper being narrow and deeply curved, the lower being shallow, tapering downward. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of three canes: one in a purple ground with a scatter of yellow dots; the second in blue with a yellow spiral, and the third in purple outlined in white surrounding a red circle containing a honeycomb pattern of blue rods outlined in yellow. Polished interior; pitting of surface bubbles on interior; dulling, pitting, and weathering on exterior, outer edge of rim, and one jagged edge; the other jagged edge is unweathered.

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