Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue, with handle in same color; trails in opaque yellow. Elongated trefoil rim-disk; neck expanding downward to shoulder; ovoid body tapering downwards; applied circular pad-base, flattened on bottom, with rounded edge; vestiges of handle on top of neck and back of rim-disk. A fine trail attached at edge of rim-disk, and drawn down to form horizontal line around neck; another thicker trail applied to shoulder and wound in a spiral three times around upper body, then drawn down and wound twice around underside of body, partly obscured by pad-base. Body complete, but most of handle missing and hole in edge of shoulder where lower end of handle had been applied; slight dulling and pitting, with faint 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