Glass beaker or lamp

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless with pale green tinge; translucent blue blobs appearing opaque bluish grey. Thick rim, cracked off and ground, slightly outsplayed; short, vertical side to top of body, then funnel-shaped; small kick in bottom. Midway down side an uneven horizontal row of thirteen applied blobs. Intact, except for a small chip in rim; many bubbles; dulling on exterior, with pitting and whitish weathering on blobs, thick encrustation and weathering on interior above brilliant iridescence. Conical, with glass patches.

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