Glass mosaic carinated bowl fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Body fragment. Translucent deep purple, pale turquoise blue partially mixed with opaque yellow and appearing green, opaque white and yellow. Part of deep, slightly convex curving side, turned out sharply and curving upward above. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of four canes: one in a purple ground with a scatter of white dots; a second in a purple ground with a yellow circle containing a blue ground and a central white rod; a third in a purple ground with a white circle containing a blue ground and a central yellow rod, and the fourth in a blue ground with a yellow spiral around a central white (?) rod. Polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling, pitting, and iridescent weathering on interior and 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