Glass hexagonal jug
An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Translucent light blue green, with same color handle and trail. Outsplayed rim folded outward, over, and inward; neck funnel-shaped at top, then cylindrical; sloping shoulder with rounded edge; hexagonal body, tapering downwards, with slightly impressed side panels; deeply pushed-in bottom, with central pontil scar; rod handle, attached in a large pad to edge of shoulder, drawn up and outward, then curved in, with downward fold before being applied to outer edge of rim. On lower half of neck, single fine trail wound down four and a half turns in a spiral; on body, six elongated rectangular panels, flanked with prominent vertical ribbed edges and decorated with matching pairs of three different geometric relief patterns: vertical lozenges with central dots, a lattice of diamond-shaped bosses, and a stylized palm frond with ten or eleven leaves to either side of central stem; on bottom, a six-petalled rosette. Intact, but small losses to trail; elongated bubbles in neck and handle; some soil encrustation, dulling, pitting, and iridescent weathering. From a similar but slightly different mold to that used for X.244. The two shapes show how mold-blown vessels could be finished off differently and made into bottles, flasks, and jars.
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.