Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Small one-handled jug Translucent yellow green; handle in same color. Rim folded out, down, round, and up, with beveled outer edge above flaring mouth; slightly cone-shaped cylindrical neck, with tooling marks at base; squat, bulbous body, curving in to integral, high base ring; concave bottom; strap handle applied to shoulder in two broad claws at front and triangular pad at back spreading to base of neck with tooling mark across it, drawn up and out, turned in horizontally, with a vertical fold as thumb rest above rim, and then trailed on to top of neck and outer edge of rim. Intact; some bubbles; some dulling and weathering, with areas of brilliant 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