Glass mosaic perfume bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent brownish yellow, with opaque white trails. Everted, rounded rim; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly downward, with slight tooled indent around base; broad piriform body; concave bottom. Striped mosaic pattern of applied white trails wound round on a yellow ground and then tooled in four upward strokes into swirling circular patterns. Broken and repaired, with one large hole in rim, another in body, and several smaller holes in neck and body; some small bubbles; some pitting and whitish weathering.

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