Glass jar with two handles

Glass jar with two handles

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; handles in same color. Outsplayed rim, folded over and in, and smoothed into side of mouth; broad funnel-shaped neck; narrow shoulder; bulbous body; deep kick in bottom with central pontil scar; two large rod handles attached in pads to upper body, drawn up, folded in and downwards, and then trailed onto rim (and top of neck on one side), ending just over top of rim. On body, twelve vertical ribs in relief. Intact; some pinprick bubbles; dulling, fine pitting, and iridescence, with some patches of creamy weathering.

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.