Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Small jug. Translucent light blue green; handle, foot ring, and trail in same color. Uneven rim folded over and into flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; biconical body; low, applied foot ring; flat bottom, with pontil scar; three-ribbed strap handle, attached to upper body with long downward claws, drawn up, round, and in, folded down and up, and attached to underside of mouth and edge of rim over trail, with projecting hollow loop. One thicker trail wound horizontally slightly more than once around underside of mouth, then wound nearly twice down in a spiral on top of neck. Complete, but crack extending from rim down mouth; many bubbles, some large and elongated, with streaky black impurities in rim and mouth; faint weathering and iridescence on exterior, patches of creamy brown weathering and brilliant iridescence on interior.

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