Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; handle in same color. Collar rim folded out, down, up, and out, with horizontal outer lip; short cylindrical neck, curving out at base to join sloping shoulder; cylindrical body, with sides tapering downwards; concave bottom; reeded strap handle applied to top of body and outer edge of shoulder in broad pad, drawn up and out, then turned in horizontally at acute angle, trailed on to top of neck and bottom edge of rim, and tooled into flat pad. Three horizontal bands of wheel-cut decoration on body: upper and lower bands each comprising two fine parallel lines; central band of two fine lines flanking a broader groove. Intact; many bubbles and blowing striations; dulling, pitting, and iridescence with patches of creamy weathering. Myres mistakenly classified this bottle as mold blown.

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