Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent green with bluish tinge; handle in same color. Collared rim with large splayed downward fold and everted upward lip, then turned in and smoothed into slightly flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, tapering slightly downwards, with tooled indent around base; short shoulder, curving outward to join bulbous body, with two thickened concentric ridges near top; splayed, integral base ring; pushed-in bottom; handle with two prominent ribs at sides, attached to upper body with downward fins, drawn up and slightly out, turned in at acute angle and pressed on to upper neck. Intact, except for minor chip in rim; some bubbles, elongated in neck and handle; faint iridescence and weathering, with slight soil encrustaion on interior. Colorless jug with handle.

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