Glass perfume bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless but with prominent purple streaks. Rim folded out, over, and in, and pressed flat around mouth but aslant to neck; tall, slender, cylindrical neck, with tooled indent around base; conical sides to body, curving in to flat but uneven bottom. Two faint horizontal lines around upper part of body. Intact; a few bubbles, glassy inclusions, and blowing striations; dulling and faint iridescent weathering on exterior, some thicker, enamel-like weathering on interior. Conical lavender blown glass vase with long slender neck.

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