Glass miniature jar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Semi-translucent green, appearing opaque black; handles in same color. Irregular everted rim; short, concave neck; narrow, almost horizontal shoulder; bulbous, oval body with thick side; round, thick bottom; two handles applied to edge of shoulder and top of side, drawn up and in, attached to lip of rim, with excess glass drawn up into pinched thumb rests. On body, side tooled into nine thick projecting ribs that slant downwards from left to right. Complete, but internal crack on bottom; dulling, pitting of surface bubbles, patches of creamy brown weathering, iridescence, and soil encrustation.

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