Glass two-handled bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; handles in same color. Rim folded out, round, and in, with beveled outer edge; flaring, lob-sided mouth; short, funnel-shaped neck, expanding downward to join imperceptibly with slender bulbous body; integral, thick, slightly everted base ring; uneven, concave bottom; rod handle applied to shoulder in long, crimped pads, drawn up and round, pressed on to neck and trailed off back along top of handles. Intact; pinprick bubbles; dulling, pitting, and iridescence, with areas of creamy weathering and encrustation.

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