Glass miniature jar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue; one trail in same color, zigzag trail and base ring in opaque brownish red. Everted rim, folded over and in; short cylindrical neck with concave profile; projecting, rounded shoulder; bulbous body with side tapering downwards; applied base ring; small, pushed-in bottom with central pontil mark. Fine blue trail wound in a spiral twice around neck; thicker red trail applied to shoulder and drawn up to rim seven times forming openwork zigzag running from left to right. Body complete but cracked and chipped, part of zigzag trail and base ring missing; pinprick and larger bubbles; slight dulling and faint iridescent weathering. Blue jar with red opaque foot and red zigzag thread from neck to body.

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