Glass square bottle

Glass square bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green with purple swirls; handle in same color (?). Rim folded out, over, and in, and flattened on top; broad, cylindrical neck, expanding downward to sloping shoulder with rounded corners; straight sides; slightly uneven, flat bottom; strap handle applied as a large pad to shoulder, drawn up vertically, turned in at sharp angle, and trailed on to top of neck and outer edge of rim. Intact; many bubbles and blowing striations; pitting and brilliant iridesence.

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.