Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green, with same color handle. Collared rim, folded out, down, and up, with lip on outer edge of flaring mouth; cylindrical neck with tooled indent around base; straight sides to conical body; flat bottom; handle applied as a long trail down side and lower part of neck, then drawn out in a loop and trailed on to rim and top of neck. Trail on body below handle decorated with ten horizontal crimped notches. Complete except for part of rim with weathered breaks; many pinprick and larger bubbles; deep pitting, brilliant iridescence, and patches of silvery 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