Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Opaque white, with handle and foot apparently in opaque white and translucent purple; trails in translucent purple. Applied broad, trefoil rim-disk with radiating tool marks on upper surface; cylindrical neck with concave sides; broad, sloping shoulder; convex sides to body curving in to flattened bottom; applied outsplayed foot, with uneven underside; handle applied on shoulder over trails and pressed on to underside of rim-disk and top of neck. One trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another trail applied to edge of shoulder, wound round in a spiral, then tooled into an irregular zigzag pattern, and ending on lower body; vertical tooling indents in alternating upward and downward strokes, forming prominent rounded ribs around body; a marvered circular blob applied to side of lower body. Complete, except for most of handle and chip in rim-disk, both with weaathered breaks; some pitting, most of surfaces covered in thick creamy weathering with faint iridescence. Opaque white with wavy zigzag pattern in purple.

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