Glass mosaic carinated bowl fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent deep purple, greyish blue, opaque white, red, yellow, and light turquoise green, with colorless streaks. Flat bottom (?), then narrow convex curve, and outturned edge above. Mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of three canes outlined in white: one in a purple ground enclosing a solid circle in turquoise green with a pattern of yellow rods outlined with a purple circle around a central dot; another in a purple ground with white rods around a central red rod, and a third in a purple ground with a circle of white dots around a white circle and central blue rod. Polished exterior; pitting and slight weathering of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling and thick creamy weathering on interior 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