Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green; handle and trails in same color. Plain rounded rim; broad flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; piriform body; deep kick in bottom with central pontil mark; broad reeded handle applied at junction of neck and body, drawn up and out, then turned in and folded onto underside of mouth over trail decoration. One trail wound horizontally twice around underside of mouth; another trail wound horizontally twice around lower neck, forming a projecting collar; on lower body, seven oval indents. Intact; many pinprick bubbles; pitting and brilliant iridescent weathering with some patches of soil encrustation.

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