Glass jug in the shape of a bunch of grapes

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue with same color handle. Thick rim folded out, over, and in, with beveled inner lip; flaring mouth; tall cylindrical neck; piriform body; round bottom; handle with three ribs, attached with open claws to top of body, drawn up, turned in onto top of neck and trailed off along underside of rim with projecting end. Body blown into a two-part mold, with seam running from base of neck down sides and around bottom. On body, a pattern of stylized grapes comprising nine irregular interlocking rows of hemispherical knobs. Broken and repaired, with part of rim and mouth missing (with weathered edges) and cracks around body and handle; some bubbles and a few black impurities; patches of dulling, iridescence, and thick limy weathering. Jug in the form of grapes, blue.

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