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, slightly concave on bottom; strap handle attached in pad to outer edge of shoulder. A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another unmarvered yellow trail wound spirally four times around neck; on body, alternating bands of yellow, white, and turquoise trails wound round from shoulder to pad-base and tooled into a close-set feather pattern in eleven vertical panels with alternating upward and downward strokes, creating long loops at top and bottom. Broken and repaired, with many holes in rim and neck and most of handle missing; one large chip in body and two small chips in pad-base; 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