Glass monocrome dish fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fragment of footed dish. Opaque red. Flat interior, slightly concave at center; on exterior, solid angular foot ring, slanting outward, around edge of bottom. Polished interior; pitting of surface bubbles and patch of weathering on interior; gritty encrustation and thick green weathering on exterior and outer edge of foot ring; no weathering on broken edge. The rest of the side that extended up from the foot ring has probably been ground away in recent times.

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