Glass footed jar

Glass footed jar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent purple; feet in same color; handle trails in translucent pale green. Rounded rim, folded over and in; flaring oval mouth; slanting cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder, pushed-in on one side; curving side to body, tapering downwards; small, slightly flattened bottom; three solid rod feet applied as squared pads around bottom; nine trails applied as rod handles attached to top of body as pads, drawn up and slightly outwards, then turned in and trailed onto edge and top of rim. Complete, but cracks running through body; pinprick bubbles; heavily pitted and weathered on one side of exterior with brilliant iridescence, soil encrustation and weathering on interior. With nine handles and three feet.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.