Glass short-strip mosaic bowl fragment

Glass short-strip mosaic bowl fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue, opaque white, yellow, and brick red, and colorless. Convex curving side. Short-strip mosaic pattern formed from short lengths of two canes set at an angle to each other in parallel bands of red, blue, and yellow outlined in white and with colorless streaks. Pinprick bubbles; polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling and creamy weathering on interior and jagged edges.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.