Glass rectangular bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent deep blue green; handles in same color. Rim folded out, round and in, with broad, flattened upper surface; cylindrical neck, slightly tapering downward, with horizontal tooling marks around the base; horizontal shoulder with rounded corners; rectangular body with flat sides, tapering downward on short sides; thick, concave bottom with circular pontil scar; two broad handles, each with three ribs, applied as a long pad to short edge of shoulder, drawn up vertically, then bent in and down, and attached to neck with upward trail extending to underside of rim. Intact, except for one weathered chip in rim; pinprick and a few larger bubbles; dulling and pitting, thin patches of weathering on exterior, and greater iridescence on interior. Rectangular two-handled bottle with round neck.

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