Glass pendant in the form of a miniature jug

Glass pendant in the form of a miniature jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Semi-opaque dark green, appearing opaque black; handle in same color; trail in semi-opaque pale yellow. Biconical body; broad rounded rim; short cylindrical neck with spiral ribbing; large, flat pad base, slightly pushed-in on bottom; handle applied to body over decoration, drawn out and up in a loop, and attached to rim and trailing off to one side. On body, single zigzag trail. Body intact, but large weathered chip in body; faint dulling and slight weathering. Small one-ndled glass vase; blue with light design.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.