Glass one-handled bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent yellow green; handle in same color. Collared rim folded out, down, round, up, and out, with a stepped profile and a flattened upper edge; cylindrical neck, with tooling indent around the base; conical body with bulbous side curving in at base; hollow, slightly outsplayed foot ring; pushed-in bottom; strap handle with a single central projecting rib applied to top of body, drawn up and outwards in a loop, then turned in, and pressed onto side of rim, with vertical projecting flat thumb rest and trail ending on top of neck; at lower end of handle, a long trail extends down side of body, tooled with seven horizontal notches. Intact; some bubbles and a few glassy inclusions; faint weathering on exterior, patches of soil encrusted 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