Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue, with handle and foot in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue. Applied broad trefoil rim-disk, with upright spout; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; angular shoulder; large ovoid body; applied irregular outsplayed foot with rounded edge and pushed-in bottom; handle attached to upper body in a pad over trail decoration, drawn up and out, and turned in, forming an arch slightly above rim-disk, then dropped down and pressed on to back of neck below rim-disk. Yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a second yellow trail applied as a thick unmarvered line on upper body, wound horizontally four times, then tooled into a close-set, narrow zigzag pattern, intermingling with a turquoise blue trail; below, another yellow trail wound horizontally three times around body; a yellow trail partially wound around edge of foot. Intact; dulling, slight pitting, iridescence, and creamy brown weathering, especially covering trails.

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