Glass jug with trefoil rim

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale greenish yellow; handle and trail in same color. Rim folded out and rounded in the flame; trefoil, flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; broad, sloping shoulder; body with straight side, tapering downwards; splayed tubular foot, made by folding; uneven, slightly concave bottom with pontil scar; rod handle applied in a large pad to outer edge of shoulder, drawn up almost vertically, then turned in and down, and folded onto underside of rim, with trail splayed out along edge of rim on one side. Tubular trail applied as a pad and wound horizontally from left to right once around neck. Intact, except for small part of lower trail; some bubbles and blowing striations, and black impurities in handle; some dulling, slight pitting, and iridescence on exterior, patches of reddish soil encrustation and weathering on interior.

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