Glass jug
An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Translucent pale blue green, with same color handle. Everted rim, folded down, round, and in; flaring mouth; tall neck expanding downwards; sloping, slightly convex shoulder; squat body with hexagonal sides; low base with flat bottom; bifurcated handle attached to shoulder, drawn up and out in a curve, then turned in horizontally and trailed on to edge of rim and top of neck in several folds. Decoration in relief in three registers: on shoulder, six arches, each containing an unidentified domed object; on body, six square panels, divided by columns with capitals and bases, each containing an object: 1, a footed bowl; 2, a pine cone; 3, a footed jar with rounded objects (fruit ?) emerging from its rim; 4, a footed jug with long S-shaped handle; 5, another pine cone; 6, a handled vase with conical lid; below, continuous band of twenty-two radiating upturned tongues; on bottom, raised broad circle around edge and dot at center. Broken, with most of rim and part of neck missing, cracks in shoulder, and small hole in panel 4; pinprick bubbles; slight dulling and faint iridescence, with patches of creamy brown weathering and encrustation. Made in the same mold as 17.194.230.
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.