Glass jar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Small jar. Translucent pale blue green with purple streaks; trail in same color. Rim folded out, over, and in, and pressed into wide horizontal mouth; short, cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; almost horizontal shoulder; squat, bulbous body; shallow kick in bottom with traces of circular pontil mark. Trail wound round from left to right in zigzag between outer edge of shoulder and rim, forming openwork collar. Intact, but one strand of trail missing with crack in body below; many bubbles; dulling, small patches of soil encrustation and blackish weathering on exterior; encrustation and iridescent weathering on interior. Large piece of woody root trapped behind trail around neck. Bluish round blown glass vase with zigzag glass threads from shoulder to lip.

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