Glass spouted jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent deep blue green; handle and trail in same color. Oval, outsplayed rim with vertical, rounded and thickened lip; upward-projecting spout at front and indents in sides below; neck expands downwards; globular body; flat bottom; strap handle applied to top of body over trail decoration, drawn up and outwards in a curve, then turned in and pressed onto back of rim with small, flattened, projecting thumb rest. Single trail applied to top of body and wound down in a spiral of 9½ turns, ending around bottom. Intact; very many bubbles and blowing striations; slight dulling and patches of brownish weathering and iridescence. With thread running from neck to foot.

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