Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green; handle in same color. Rim folded out, round, and in, with beveled edges; flaring mouth; tall, cylindrical neck, with tooling marks at base; globular body; integral base ring with pronounced outward fold; flat bottom; flat bottom; strap handle of three ribs, applied as a thick, broad pad to upper body, drawn up and curved in, then trailed on to outer edge of rim and top of neck. Broken and repaired, complete except for top of handle, where possible vertical thumb rest is missing; some pinprick bubbles; dulling and creamy weathering with 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