Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green; trails in same color, but handle in a deeper blue green. Plain, rounded rim; broad, flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards and joining imperceptibly with conical body, with slightly convex side; pushed-in bottom, with central projecting knob and pontil scar; rod handle applied over trail decoration as a large claw-like pad, drawn outwards, folded in and down, and trailed on to underside of mouth over trail decoration, ending above rim. Two separate trails: one extending in a spiral from underside of mouth, ending around base of neck, the other applied as a small pad on edge of bottom and drawn up in a spiral eight times around body, ending under bottom of handle. Body and handle complete, but most of rim, mouth, and top of neck missing; few bubbles; dulling and thick, creamy, iridescent weathering, with a large lump of soil encrustation on one side of interior.

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