Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Small jug. Colorless with yellow green tinge; handle and trail in same color. Rim folded out, round, and pressed into side of flaring mouth; cylindrical neck expanding downwards and joining imperceptibly with slender bulbous body; thick bottom, concave at center and with splayed outer edge; rod handle attached to upper body in a clawed pad, drawn up and slightly outwards, then turned in sharply onto rim, with projecting pinched fold above. Around neck, single uneven trail, forming an incomplete circle and now unattached to vessel. Broken and repaired around body with several losses; many pinprick bubbles; dulling, severe pitting, and iridescent weathering.

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