Glass jar with basket handle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; handles in same color. Everted rim, folded over and in, and pressed into side of neck; funnel-shaped neck; squat, globular body; broad kick in bottom with large pontil mark; four rod handles applied in large claw pads to upper body; two drawn up and outwards, then turned in at angle, and trailed onto edge of rim; the other two handles drawn up more vertically to edge of rim, and another handle applied over one of these handles and inside of rim, drawn up in a large loop, and trailed off over the other handle on the opposite side of vessel. Broken, with several large cracks and one large hole in rim and neck; bubbles and blowing striations, with some black, streaky impurities in handles; dulling, slight pitting, creamy weathering, and 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