Glass two-handled jar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green; handles and trails in same color. Rounded, everted rim; below, hollow folded flange; short concave neck; squat globular body; pushed-in bottom with interior kick and pontil ring at center; two rod handles applied in large pads over trail to upper body, drawn up and out, then folded down and in onto flange, drawn up again, and snipped off on top edge of rim. One trail applied to body at greatest diameter to form zigzag pattern, extending two-thirds of way around body; a second trail applied to complete the zigzag, then drawn up over first trail and wound horizontally once around upper body. Intact; pinprick and a few larger bubbles; dulling, creamy weathering, and iridescence.

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