Glass jug with chain handle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green; trails, handle, and foot ring in same color. Outsplayed and rounded rim; funnel-shaped neck; tall, conical body; broad, almost flat bottom with central high kick and trace of pontil mark, surrounded by splayed foot ring; chain handle consists of two trails applied to side in thick oval pads, drawn up and out, pinched together five times to form a vertical row of elongated horizontal loops, then trails continue as a single strap-like attachment with hollow loop above and folds below, pressed on to neck over trail decoration. Thick horizontal trail applied to neck below rim; a thin trail wound more than once around neck just above junction with body; on body, decoration of fifteen fine spiral ribs, formed in a dip mold, extending from neck to edge of bottom. Broken and repaired, with losses to rim, neck, lower body and outer bottom, and part of one handle loop; few bubbles; dulling, limy encrustation and weathering, and iridescence.

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