Glass pendant in the form of a vase

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Uncertain color, streaked with red; handle and trails in translucent cobalt blue. Tall cylindrical body; rounded lip with applied trail as rim; rounded towards bottom; small pad base; vertical handle extending from lower side of body to underside of rim. In addition to the applied trails forming the rim and handle, there are two horizontal trails around the lower half of the body. Body intact, but parts of trails missing with weathered edges; dulling and thick creamy 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