Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent greenish yellow; handle and trail in same color. Rim folded out, over, and in; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; slender bulbous body; splayed tubular foot, made by folding; small flat bottom with pontil scar; handle applied as a claw pad to base of neck and top of body, drawn up and out in a curve, then turned in and trailed onto underside and edge of rim. On neck a single fine trail, applied in a large pad and drawn down in a spiral, ending at handle. Intact, but part of trail missing; many bubbles and blowing striations; thick creamy weathering, mostly flaked off on exterior, and brilliant 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