Glass two-handled bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue-green; handles in same color. Rim folded out, round, and in, and flattened in to side of flaring mouth; misshapen cylindrical neck; lentoid body with bulbous sides and slight tooling depressions on both faces; deep kick in bottom with circular pontil mark; two rod handles applied as pads to sides of upper body, drawn up (one straight, the other in a curve), turned in, and trailed onto top of neck, underside of mouth, and edge of rim, with rounded projecting ends. Intact; many pinprick bubbles; dulling, pitting, creamy brown weathering, and iridescence.

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