Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue, with handle in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque white. Applied large trefoil rim-disk; short cylindrical neck, tapering upwards; broad rounded shoulder; stright-sided body with pronounced downward taper; applied low circular coiled pad-base, with flattened bottom; strap handle attached to shoulder, drawn up and round in a curve, arching above the rim-disk, and pressed on to top of neck behind rim-disk. A yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another fine yellow trail wound spirally more than six times around neck; a third fine yellow trail wound around outer edge of shoulder, then intermingling with a white trail on upper body; both tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern; below, a fourth yellow trail wound horizontally in a single turn; a fifth yellow trail attached at edge of pad-base. Intact, but some internal cracks in body; some of trails completely weathered, leaving only impressions in side of body; some dulling and pitting, and small patches of iridescence and weathering.

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