Glass perfume bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Candlestick unguentarium. Uncertain color (colorless ?). Everted rim, with rounded outer lip; slender, tall, slightly concave neck; horizontal shoulder; sides of body expanding downwards; pushed-in bottom with circular pontil scar. Broken at top with two-thirds of rim missing, but otherwise complete; bubbles and blowing striations; creamy brown weathering and brilliant iridescence, inside of neck encrusted and blocked with soil.

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