Glass square bottle

Glass square bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green, with same color handle. Broad, thick rim folded out, down, over, and in, and smoothed into top of mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; sloping shoulder with rounded, sloping corners; flat, vertical sides; thick, concave bottom with large pontil scar; broad strap handle, with combed decoration on outer surface, attached to shoulder and top of body in a long, thick pad, drawn up vertically, turned in an acute angle and trailed onto neck, with trail extending to underside of rim. Molded decoration on bottom comprising indistinct letters at corners and a single circle in relief. One of the letters reads as M or W. Intact, but crack in top of handle and parts missing (with weathered edges) on either side; some pinprick and larger bubbles, blowing striations; dulling, iridescence, and some whitish weathering.

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.