Glass bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent green with yellow tinge. Rounded rim, folded in and pressed into side of funnel-shaped mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; sloping shoulder; conical body with concave side; pushed-in bottom with off-center kick and large pontil scar. Lower two-thirds of body inflated in dip mold, forming twenty-six vertical indents with round tops and tapering downwards. Intact; many bubbles and blowing striations; some pitting, slight weathering, and faint iridescence on exterior, creamy white weathering and iridescence on interior.

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