Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Small one-handled jug Translucent pale blue green; handle and trail in same color. Rim folded over and in and pressed into outer edge of broad, flaring mouth; short and slender concave neck, expanding downwards to piriform body; integral tubular base ring; pushed-in bottom with central pontil mark; rod handle applied as a large, uneven pad to top of body, drawn up and out, curved in horizontally and trailed onto underside of mouth and edgeof rim, with outward projecting thumb-rest above. Trail in 1.5 turns around neck. Intact, except for part of trail; pinprick bubbles; pitting, dulling, and milky weathering with iridesence

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