Glass mosaic hemispherical bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue and opaque white. Vertical, squared-off rim; convex curving side; convex bottom. Composite mosaic pattern formed from irregular circular sections of a single cane in a blue ground with a white spiral, interspersed with a small number of angular segments of a cane in solid white; a blue network cane wound spirally with a white trail is attached as a rim. Broken and repaired with one large hole in side and another in rim; dulling, pitting, and creamy weathering with faint iridescence.

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