Glass beaker or lamp

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent yellow green; blobs in translucent cobalt blue. Bulging, cracked-off rim; straight side tapering downwards, then slightly outsplayed at base; small circular bottom with central indent. Three horizontal bands of wheel-abraded decoration: on upper body, a single fine line; a band of three lines above middle of body; and the third band comprising two fine lines just below middle of body. Between the first and second cut bands, a band of applied flattened blobs comprising two large circular blobs on opposite sides with two groups of six and seven smaller irregularly-shaped blobs arranged between them. Intact; pinprick and a few elongated bubbles; pitting, brown weathering, and slight 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