Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Opaque white, with handle and foot in same color; trails in translucent purple. Applied trefoil rim-disk; rather tall cylindrical neck, tapering slightly downwards; angular shoulder; ovoid body; applied outsplayed foot with uneven concave bottom; handle attached to top of body over trail decoration, drawn up and out,arching above rim-disk, then turned in and pressed on to back of rim-disk and top of neck. One trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a second thick trail applied to shoulder, wound horizontally four or five times around top of body, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around upper half of body; below this, another trail wound horizontally twice around lower body; finally, a fourth trail wound around edge of foot. Intact; dulling, and severe pitting and 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