Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green; trails and handle in same color; purple streak in handle and upper trail. Plain, rounded rim; broad, flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly downwards; sloping shoulder; piriform body; splayed, tubular base ring, made by folding, with tooling indents on upper surface; pushed-in bottom with pontil scar; rod handle applied to edge of shoulder in a pad, drawn up vertically, turned in and trailed on to underside of mouth and over rim. Single trail applied to underside of mouth; another horizontal trail wound once round lower neck; on body, forty vertical ribs in relief, tapering downwards. Intact, except for two weathered losses to lower trail; few bubbles; dulling, slight pitting, limy encrustation, and 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