Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green; trails in same color, but handle in deeper blue green. Plain, rounded rim; flaring, oval mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly downwards; conical shoulder; side of body tapering slightly downwards, then curving in to outsplayed tubular base ring, made by folding; pushed-in bottom with small central pontil mark; rod handle applied in a pad to shoulder, drawn up vertically, then turned in, and trailed on to underside of mouth over trail decoration, with one horizontal tooling indent across trail, and ending slightly above rim. One trail wound round slightly over four times in a spiral on underside of mouth; another trail wound horizontally 1½ times around base of neck; on body, twelve vertical tooled indents. Intact; few bubbles, but many elongated bubbles in handle; dulling, pitting, iridescence, and creamy weathering, with patches of soil encrustation on interior.

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