Glass jug with trefoil rim

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; handle and trails in same color. Plain, rounded rim; trefoil, flaring mouth; cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; body with concave side, tapering downwards; thick bottom with kick and pontil scar; rod handle applied in a large pad to shoulder over trail, drawn up and out, then turned in and trailed onto underside and edge of rim. Trail or trails applied in irregular concentric circles on underside of mouth; another trail applied as a large pad and wound horizontally once around base of neck. Intact, except for small weathered chip in rim next to handle and small part of lower trail; many bubbles; 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