Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue; handle, trail, and base ring in same color. Everted rim folded over and in, and smoothed into side of flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly downwards; sloping shoulder; bulbous body, tapering to applied base ring; flat bottom with slight kick and pontil scar; two-ribbed strap handle attached to top of body with long, downward fins at edges, drawn up and outwards in a curve, then turned in and trailed onto underside of mouth over trail decoration and lip of rim, with a hollow projecting loop above. Thick trail wound horizontally around underside of mouth, then dropped in a fine trail down neck, and then wound horizontally slightly more than once around lower neck. Intact; pinprick and large bubbles, and some gritty inclusions; slight dulling and iridescent weathering. With threads around neck.

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