Glass one-handled miniature bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless with blue green tinge; handle in same color glass. Rim folded out, round, and in, flattened on top; short, slightly funnel-shaped neck, with tooling marks around base; horizontal shoulder; squat, bulbous body; bottom concave at center; rod handle applied in a pad on outer edge of shoulder, drawn up and bent in, attached to lower edge of rim and trailed off below. Intact except for weathered chip in rim; pinprick bubbles; dulling, pitting, brilliant iridescence, and creamy weathering.

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