Glass beaker or lamp

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless with green tinge; translucent cobalt blue blobs. Thick, slightly bulging rim, cracked off and ground flat; funnel-shaped body with slightly convex side; concave bottom. Three horizontal bands of wheel-abraded decoration on body: immediately below rim, a band of two broad lines; another single very broad band, forming a shallow groove on upper body; the third band comprising fine lines on lower body. Between the second and third cut bands, a band of applied blobs in relief comprising three single large blobs alternating with three groups of six smaller blobs arranged in a downturned triangular pattern. Intact; a few bubbles; dulling, slight pitting, and patches of limy brown 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