Glass mosaic bowl fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rim fragment. Semi-opaque blue green appearing greyish green, dark purple appearing black, opaque white, yellow, and red. Outsplayed horizontal rim, with rounded edge; convex curving side slanting downward. Mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of a single cane in a blue green ground with a black circle containing a ring of yellow rods and a central white rod surrounded by a red circle. Polished interior; pitting and weathering of surface bubbles on interior; dulling and creamy brown weathering on exterior, edge of rim, and part of one jagged edge; other edges 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