Museum Collection: Antiques October 18, 2009

The collection of marble Roman sculptures reflects the connoisseurship and generosity of one of the museum's major donors, Wright S. Ludington. Surrounding a large-scale loutrophoros from 4th-century B.C. Greece, in the entrance court of the museum, are the monumental Hermes formerly in the Lansdowne Collection, and other important Graeco-Roman figural works. Also on view is a small but superb collection of ancient bronzes, Near-Eastern and Greek ceramics and ancient glass.