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Vase on a column stand
View through The Met
Egyptian porphyry gilt-bronze mounts
Rights: Public Domain
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman 1971
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Panathenaic Prize Amphora (storage jar)
Panathenaic Prize Amphora (storage jar)
Side A: Athena Promachos advancing to right clothed in an archaic Ionic chiton ornamented with a dotted border in white and provided with rudimentary sleeves ending in two swallow-...
Neck Amphora (storage jar): Medea Boiling a Ram
Neck Amphora (storage jar): Medea Boiling a Ram
Both sides of this vase depict an episode from the story of Medea, the daughter of Aeetes, king of Colchis (in modern-day Georgia). When the Greek hero Jason came with the Argonaut...
Bell Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Scene from a Comic Play
Bell Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Scene from a Comic Play
Pinkish-buff fabric with glossy black slip, misfired below handles, in the area between the two youths on the B-side of the vase, and within the doorway of the A-side scene. Added...
Post-Marijuana (Dama zhi hou), Written in Time Script
Post-Marijuana (Dama zhi hou), Written in Time Script
This large, horizontally oriented, rectangular album leaf is inscribed with twenty columns of text, the columns with varying numbers of characters and thus of varying lengths. The ...
Christ at the Column
Christ at the Column
Statuette: silver; column: lapis lazuli; base: black marble silver...
Three elevations of the Column of Marcus Aurelius; during the XVIIIth century; under Sixtus V before its restoration; and when it was first dedicated, from "Trofeo o sia Magnifica Colonna Coclide..." (The Trophy or Magnificent Spiral Column); Columna Anto
Three elevations of the Column of Marcus Aurelius; during the XVIIIth century; under Sixtus V before its restoration; and when it was first dedicated, from "Trofeo o sia Magnifica Colonna Coclide..." (The Trophy or Magnificent Spiral Column); Columna Anto
Etching, Trofeo o sia Magnifica Colonna Coclide di marmo composta di grossi macigni ove si veggono scolpite le due guerre daciche fatte da Trajano inalzata nel mezzo del Gran Foro...
Miniature Copy of the Portland Vase
Miniature Copy of the Portland Vase
A miniature blue jasper ware copy of the Portland vase, a Greco-Roman cameo glass amphora dating from the first century A.D., purchased by the Duke of Portland from Sir William Ham...