Glass bottle shaped like a bunch of grapes

Glass bottle shaped like a bunch of grapes

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green, with same color handle. Rim folded out, down, round, and in; flaring mouth; misshapen cylindrical neck with concave sides; lentoid body; round bottom; rod handle attached to edge of shoulder in a pad, drawn up vertically, turned in, and folded onto underside of mouth and rim. Raised mold mark visible only at base of neck on one side, but one continuous mold seam must run around body. Body molded into the shape of a tri-lobed bunch of grapes with a single, large, five-pointed grape leaf hanging over grapes on each side. One third of rim and one handle missing, with hole in shoulder where it was once attached; some bubbles; dulling, thick ring of encrustation around bottom on exterior, soil encrustation, weathering, and brilliant iridescence on interior.

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.