Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue, with handle in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque white, with specks of opaque turquoise blue. Applied trefoil rim-disk; cylindrical neck; broad rounded shoulder; straight-sided body with marked downward taper; applied low circular coiled pad-base, slightly concave on bottom; strap handle attached in claw pad to outer edge of shoulder and top of body, drawn up, curved round and down, and appied to back of rim-disk. A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another unmarvered yellow trail wound spirally five times around neck; on body, alternating bands of yellow and white trails wound round from shoulder to pad-base and tooled into a close-set feather pattern in fourteen vertical panels with alternating upward and downward strokes, another fine yellow trail attached at edge of pad-base. Broken and repaired, with part of front of trefoil rim missing and several chips in pad-base; dulling, pitting, and some 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