Glass perfume bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Small bottle. Translucent smoky grey. Slanting rim, folded out, over, and in, with raised inner lip on one side; cylindrical neck, tapering downwards, tooled in horizontally at base; tall shoulder with convex side, marked off at base by another horizontal tooled indent; squat bulbous body, then sloping in sharply to small, flat bottom. Complete, but badly cracked on body and across bottom; few bubbles and blowing striations; small patches of dulling and weathering on exterior, some soil encrustation and whitish weathering 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