Glass jar with basket handle

Glass jar with basket handle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; handle in same color. Thick, outsplayed, tubular rim, folded over and in, and flattened into side of neck; funnel-shaped neck, curving out at base to join sloping shoulder; side of body tapers downwards; large, deep kick in bottom, with central pontil scar; thick, solid rod handle applied on shoulder at one side, drawn up and slightly outwards, tooled in with a fold onto top of neck and outer edge of rim, drawn up to form an arched basket handle, and then dropped down to form fold below rim and trailed off on upper body on opposite side. Intact; some bubbles and blowing striation; dulling, creamy weathering, and iridescence.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.