Gold earring with glass pendant in the form of a miniature jug or gourd

Gold earring with glass pendant in the form of a miniature jug or gourd

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pendant: Translucent cobalt blue, with same color handle; added blobs in opaque red, white, and yellow. Thick, flaring rim; concave neck; globular body; rounded bottom; large ring handle (for suspension) trailed on to top of body, neck, and underside of rim. All of jug, except for handle, decorated with applied and marvered blobs of varying size. Intact; some pitting, creamy weathering, and iridescence.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gold earring with glass pendant in the form of a miniature jug or gourdGold earring with glass pendant in the form of a miniature jug or gourdGold earring with glass pendant in the form of a miniature jug or gourdGold earring with glass pendant in the form of a miniature jug or gourdGold earring with glass pendant in the form of a miniature jug or gourd

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.