Glass perfume bottle

Glass perfume bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless with pale blue tinge. Rim folded out, over, and in; slightly flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, tooled in around base; ovoid body; small, slight concave bottom. Horizontal tooled indent around upper part of body. Intact but with internal crack across bottom; pinprick and larger bubbles and blowing striations; slight dulling and pitting on exterior around rim; on interior brilliant silver-like iridescent weathering with some soil encrustation and one large, loose lump.


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.