Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue, with handle in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue. Applied broad trefoil rim-disk; rather tall cylindrical neck; broad sloping shoulder; ovoid body; applied outsplayed foot with uneven deep concave bottom; handle attached in a large pad to shoulder over trail decoration, drawn up and out, then turned in, arching well above rim-disk, and pressed on to back of neck below rim. Yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a wide yellow trail applied unevenly to top of neck and wound down spirally across shoulder, then tooled on body around upper half of body with deep vertical ribs; a thick turquoise blue trail added over yellow, forming a striking zigzag pattern in alternate colors; below this, the yellow trail continues as an irregular festoon pattern around lower body. Broken and repaired, with parts of rim-disk, neck, and body missing; 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