Glass jug with trefoil rim

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale green; handle and trails in same color. Broad trefoil rim with plain rounded lip; flaring mouth; short, cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; conical body with bulbous side; deep kick in bottom with central pontil scar; rod handle applied in an irregular pad to top of body, drawn up and outwards in an angular curve, and trailed off on back of rim over trail. Trail applied below rim and wound round four and a half times in a spiral. Intact; some bubbles; dulling, pitting, weathering, and iridescence, mainly on one side of body, around rim, and on handle.

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