Glass hexagonal jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green with same color handle and trail. Rounded rim, folded out, over, and in, and smoothed into outer edge of flaring mouth; cylindrical neck expanding downwards; horizontal shoulder with rounded edges; hexagonal body with sides tapering downwards; kick in bottom, with small central pontil mark; thick rod handle attached in a large pad to shoulder, drawn up and out in a curve, then trailed on to edge of rim and underside of mouth. On neck, trail applied as a pad and wound once round vertically; on body, three different designs, each repeated twice: 1) three large lozenges arranged vertically, each with a central circular boss, and three half-lozenges to either side; 2) staggered rows of diamond-shaped knobs; 3) palm frond with twelve leaves to either side; on bottom, six-petaled rosette. Complete, but internal crack in neck and part of trail broken off and now unattached; pinprick bubbles; dulling, pitting, and brilliant 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