Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent honey brown, with handle in same color; trails in opaque yellow, opaque white, and opaque turquoise blue. Applied trefoil rim-disk; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; broad rounded shoulder; slightly convex sides to body with downward taper; applied low circular coiled pad-base, with slightly convex uneven bottom; strap handle attached in pad to outer edge of shoulder, drawn up vertically, turned in, and pressed on to back of rim-disk. A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another unmarvered yellow trail wound spirally four and a half times around neck; on outer edge of shoulder and extending down body, alternating bands of yellow, turquoise, and white trails wound round in almost horizontal lines but with a central band of white tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern; another yellow trail attached at edge of pad-base. Broken and repaired, with one large hole in body and many smaller chips in rim, handle, body, and base; parts of trails, especially those in yellow, completely weathered, leaving only impressions in body of vessel; dulling, pitting, and 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