Glass jar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green; trail and handles in translucent blue green streaked with opaque dark brown red. Rim slightly outsplayed, with rounded vertical lip; below hollow folded flange; funnel-shaped neck; sloping shoulder; body with convex side, tapering downwards to pushed-in bottom with kick and pontil scar; four handles, arranged in pairs on opposite sides of vessel, applied in large claw pads to edge of shoulder, drawn up and out, then folded in to flange, drawn up again to form hollow loop, and trailed off on top edge of rim. Single fine trail wound horizontally two and a half times around middle of body. Broken on one side of rim and neck with one large hole; many pinprick and some larger bubbles; dulling, faint weathering, and iridescence on exterior, soil encrustation, creamy weathering, and iridescence covering much of interior.

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