The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron and Son

Seán Hemingway, curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, discusses early twentieth-century reproductions of works from Sir Arthur Evans's historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenaean Greece.

This lecture was recorded on September 9, 2011, in conjunction with the exhibition Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son, on view May 17, 2011, through June 17, 2012.

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Mosaic glass bowl

Period:: Early Imperial
Date:: late 1st century B.C.–early 1st century A.D.
Culture:: Roman, probably Italian
Medium:: Glass; cast
Dimensions:: H.: 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm) Diam.: 3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm)
Classification:: Glass
Credit Line:: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
Accession Number:: 91.1.1313

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 171

Description

Translucent cobalt blue and opaque white.
Upright rim with rounded edge; convex curving side; shallow convex bottom.
Composite mosaic pattern formed from large polygonal sections of a single cane in a blue ground with a white spiral.
Intact; pitting, dulling, and iridescent weathering.
See also
What
Glass (16,037)

Bowls (5,014)

Mosaics (545)
Where
Roman Empire (5,259)
In the Museum
Greek and Roman Art (17,329)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Italian Peninsula, 1–500A.D.

Italian Peninsula, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.