Glass perfume bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue. Thick rim, folded out, over and in, flattened on top and forming uneven opening to mouth; cylindrical neck, tapering slightly downwards and tooled in deeply around base; conical body with straight sides; deep, pointed kick in bottom with large circular pontil scar. Intact; pinprick bubbles; areas of pitting and iridescent 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