Glass jar in the shape of a bunch of grapes

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent greenish yellow. Rim folded out, over, and in, then flattened into mouth; funnel neck; hollow projecting roll above shoulder collar; ovoid body; low cylindrical base, with concave bottom. Pontil scar at center of bottom. Body blown into a three-part mold of two vertical sections, extending from base to shoulder, and a disk-shaped base section. On body, a pattern of stylized grapes comprising ten interlocking rows of twenty-one hemispherical knobs, and two small leaves, pointing downwards and with a central vertical ridge, opposite each other and centered between the mold seams; on the bottom, three concentric narrow circles. Intact; bubbles, blowing striations, and some black impurities; faint iridescence. Yellow jar with hollow roll around neck.

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