Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Small jug. Translucent pale blue green; same color handle and trail. Rim folded out, down, round, and in, and pressed into side of flaring mouth; cylindrical neck expanding downwards; sloping shoulder; convex side to body, tapering downwards; slight kick in bottom and pontil mark; rod handle applied in a pad, tooled into an upturned pinched projection, on outer edge of shoulder, drawn up and out, tooled into a projecting fold, then drawn inwards, and folded onto top of neck, underside of mouth, and edge of rim, with another projecting fold above level of rim. Fine spiral trail applied as a large pad on neck, wound round twenty-four times down lower half of neck, shoulder, and body, and extending onto bottom; on body, seven deep vertical indents. Intact, except for slight loss to trail on shoulder; many bubbles; dulling, limy brownish 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