Glass indented jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green; trails and handle in translucent deep turquoise blue. Rounded rim with slight inward lip; broad, flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly downwards; sloping, rounded shoulder; convex curving side to small body; thick, slightly pushed-in bottom, with small central pontil mark; rod handle applied as an irregular pad to outer edge of shoulder, drawn up and outwards, then turned in and down, and trailed onto rim and underside of mouth over trail. One uneven trail wound twice around underside of mouth; another trail wound slightly more than once around lower part of neck; on body, ten elongated vertical indents. Intact, but slight weathered chips in side of handle; pinprick bubbles; dulling, thick creamy white weathering, and iridescence.

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