Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Small one-handled jug Translucent streaky purple, with opaque pale blue handle. Rim folded out, down, and up, with beveled slanting outer lip; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck; slightly squat, globular body; small, slightly concave bottom; strap handle applied to top of body with two claw pads, drawn up, turned in horizontally, and trailed on to underside of rim and top of neck. Large hole in top of body on side opposite handle; center of strap of handle very thin and partially weathered away; pinprick bubbles and blowing striations; dulling, pitting, and iridescence, with patches of creamy weathering.

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