Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

One-handled jug of olpe shape, made to resemble metal (bronze) jugs Translucent blue green; handle and trail in same color. Rim folded out, down, up, and out, with rounded lip; broad cylindrical neck expanding downward to join imperceptibly with elongated bulbous body; low integral base and concave bottom with uneven surface; handle with central rib applied to top of body with long downward claw, drawn up and out, turned in horizontally to rim, with vertical fold forming thumb rest above. Single trail applied to part of top outer edge of rim in front of handle with tooled vertical rib to either side of handle. Intact, except for chip in rim and trail with one rib missing; few bubbles and glassy inclusions; dulling and iridescent weathering, with some soil encrustation on interior.

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