Glass pendant in the form of a vase

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; handle and trails in same color. Tall cylindrical hollow body; rounded lip with applied trail as rim; flat pad base; handle applied over trail decoration, drawn up, and attached 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; between them, openwork trail in zigzag pattern. Complete except for large chip in rim; dulling, pitting, and faint 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