Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent yellow brown, with translucent light green handle. Rim folded out, over, and in, with flattened upper surface; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; squat, bulbous body; concave bottom; broad strap handle applied in large pad with two outer claws to top part of body, drawn up, then turned in vertically and attached in neck below rim with vertical loop as a thumb rest above. Intact; some pinprick bubbles; dulling and faint limy weathering with some iridescence, soil encrustation and whitish iridescent weathering on interior.

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