Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue, with handle and pad-base in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque white. Applied large trefoil rim-disk; cylindrical neck; broad rounded shoulder; slightly convex sides to body with downward taper; applied low circular pad-base with uneven concave bottom; strap handle attached in pad to outer edge of shoulder, drawn up and round in a loop, and pressed onto back of rim-disk and top of neck. A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another unmarvered yellow trail wound spirally five and a half times around neck; on body, alternating bands of yellow and white trails wound round from edge of shoulder to pad-base and tooled into a close-set feather pattern in sixteen vertical panels with alternating upward and downward strokes, creating long tails at bottom; another fine yellow trail wound round edge of pad-base. Intact, except for small weathered chip in pad-base; dulling, pitting, and most of surface covered with creamy white weathering and iridescence.

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