Glass beaker

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent yellow green. Thickened, slightly flaring rim, with rounded lip; upper side to body curving slightly outwards, then tapering in to tubular, slanting foot ring with low conical base; small kick in bottom, with pontil scar. Intact, except for small hole in bottom; many pinprick bubbles, a few larger horizontal buubles, and blowing striations; faint iridescence on exterior, patches of thin weathering and iridescence 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