Glass hexagonal jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent deep yellow brown, with same color handle. Trefoil rim with thick rounded edge; shallow, funnel-shaped mouth; cylindrical neck that expands slightly downwards; slightly pushed-in horizontal shoulder with rounded outer edge; hexagonal body, tapering downwards, with slightly impressed side panels; deeply pushed-in bottom, with central pontil scar; strap handle, applied to edge of shoulder, drawn up and slightly outward, then curved round and trailed onto edge of rim, with upward tooled, flat thumb rest. On body, six rectangular panels, decorated with matching pairs of three different geometric relief patterns: two vertical lozenges with central dots and half lozenges to either side, a lattice of diamond-shaped bosses, and a stylized palm frond with twelve or thirteen leaves to either side of central stem; on bottom, an indistinct six-pointed star with straight outer edge in each segment. Intact; pinprick and some elongated larger bubbles in neck; very slight weathering and faint iridescence on exterior, some soil encrustation 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