Glass perfume bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless with pale blue green tinge. Rim folded out, over, and in; slightly funnel-shaped, cylindrical neck, with faint tooling marks around base; piriform body; flat bottom. Two roughly horizontal ridges (marvered trails?) around upper body. Broken and repaired; half of rim missing; three holes in body and bottom, and numerous cracks; many pinprick and small bubbles; dulling and iridescent weathering; patches of thick, enamel-like weathering remaining on rim and top of neck. Very thin, extremely weathered glass.

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