The Collection
The American Wing Ancient Near Eastern Art Arms and Armor The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing Asian Art The Cloisters The Costume Institute Drawings and Prints Egyptian Art European Paintings European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Greek and Roman Art Islamic Art Robert Lehman Collection The Libraries Medieval Art Musical Instruments Photographs Antonio Ratti Textile Center Modern and Contemporary Art

Glass cameo fragment

late 1st century BCE–mid-1st century CE

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 166

Translucent deep honey brown with opaque turquoise green overlay.
Flat underside; top surface with shallow relief decoration.
In relief in green, naked youthful satyr, facing right with head in profile, torso and legs in three-quarter view, and proper right arm raised behind him; torso rendered with musculature in fine detail; on his head, above his pointed proper right ear, is what appears to be a leaf or wing, picked out by differential weathering.
Broken on all sides with weathered edges; dulling, slight pitting, patches of weathering and brilliant iridescence on back.
The fragment comes from a flat panel of glass, probably a plaque rather than a vessel. The honey brown ground and opaque turquoise overlay are an unusual combination for Roman cameo glass.

Glass cameo fragment, Glass, Roman — Due to rights restrictions, this image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Title: Glass cameo fragment

Period: Early Imperial, Augustan or Julio-Claudian

Date: late 1st century BCE–mid-1st century CE

Culture: Roman

Medium: Glass; cast and cut

Dimensions: H.: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)

Classification: Glass

Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

Accession Number: 17.194.360

Chronology

Italian Peninsula, 1-500A.D.

Chronology

Italian Peninsula, 1000 B.C.-1 A.D.

We continue to research and examine historical and cultural context for objects in The Met collection. If you have comments or questions about this object record, please complete and submit this form. The Museum looks forward to receiving your comments.

The Met

Greek and Roman Art at The Met

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than 30,000 works ranging in date from the Neolithic period to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312.