Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent yellow green; handle in blue green streaked with red; two trails in yellow green streaked with red on mouth and neck, and another in turquoise blue on body. Rim folded over and in; broad, flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; sloping shoulder; tall, slender body with straight side tapering downwards; thick round bottom with pontil mark; rod handle attached as a claw to lower edge of shoulder, drawn up and slightly out, then turned in and down, and folded onto lip of rim over trail. One trail applied to underside of mouth, drawn up to lip, turned back in opposite direction and wound horizontally one and a half times around underside of mouth; another thicker trail wound horizontally slightly over once around bottom of neck; another fine trail applied to body and drawn from right to left in an irregular zigzag pattern once round side, then drawn upwards and wound two and a half times around top edge of body. Intact, except for one short break with weathered edge in trail around neck; few bubbles but black impurities, especially in handle, and blowing striations; dulling and whitish iridescent weathering.

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