Glass stemmed cup

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green; trails in translucent cobalt blue. Thickened, vertical rim, with slightly inverted lip; elongated inverted bell-shaped body, curving in at base; hollow stem; hollow, low conical foot, with tubular edge made by folding; deep kick in bottom with central pontil scar. One trail applied as a thick, elongated pad immediately below rim and wound in a spiral almost nine time around upper side of body; a second trail applied as a circular pad to side and wound round body in a spiral four times, then tooled and pinched into a wavy pattern of six upward and hanging loops (sometimes called the "spectacle" pattern). Intact; few bubbles; pitting, creamy brown 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