Glass two-handled jar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue-green; handles in streaky translucent purple. Vertical, rounded, and possibly tubular rim, with projecting horizontal flange below; broad, funnel-shaped neck; uneven shoulder, sloping on one side, horizontal and slightly pushed-in on the other; body with convex side, tapering downward; concave bottom, with small, circular pontil scar; two handles applied in large, thick pads to edge of shoulder, drawn up vertically, turned in and trailed onto flange and then up to top of rim (where one is folded back on itself as a short trail, and the other is broken off). Intact; few bubbles; patches of soil encrustation and weathering, some dulling 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