Glass mosaic fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rim fragment. Translucent cobalt blue, opaque white and yellow, and colorless. Applied coil rim, vertical with rounded edge; shallow side curving in towards bottom. Mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of two canes: one in a colorless ground with a yellow spiral, the other in a blue ground with a white spiral; rim in blue with white spiral trail. Polished exterior; pitting and weathering of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling, pitting, and brownish weathering on interior and edges. Coil rim applied unevenly, extending down side on exterior and narrow band 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