Glass cantharus (cup with two handles)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green, with same color foot and handles. Solid beveled rim, with outward horizontal bulge below on exterior and horizontal groove on interior; cylindrical body, tapering slightly downwards, then sloping in to small bottom; hollow conical foot formed from separate gather, with edge cracked off and ground; two plain rod handles applied to top of sides and bulge below rim in thick pads, drawn up and out, then curved round and down, and pressed onto lower sides with thin trails extending onto top of foot. Body intact, but foot broken and repaired with parts of edge missing; few bubbles; some pitting, creamy brown weathering, and iridescence. Two handled cup with short foot.

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