Glass square bottle

Glass square bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; handle in same color. Rim folded out, round, and in, with flaring mouth; cylindrical, slightly concave neck, with tooling marks around base; sloping shoulder with rounded corners; four flat sides, tapering downward; flat but slightly uneven bottom with slight ribbing in parallel lines; claw handle applied to shoulder, drawn up and outward, then turned in horizontally and trailed on to top of neck and underside of rim. Intact; few bubbles; slight pitting, dulling, and iridescence on exterior; patches of creamy weathering on interior.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.