Glass cup

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent greenish yellow. Vertical rounded and thickened rim; broad, cylindrical neck, slightly tapering downward, with folded tubular flange at base; slender S-shaped profile to body, which curves in at top behind flange, descends almost vertically with slightly convex sides, and then curves in to pushed-in base with trace of pontil scar. Intact, except for small crack in rim and neck; few bubbles; patches of dulling, slight pitting, iridescence, and limy weathering. Yellow cup with offset rim.

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