Glass mosaic perfume bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue and purple, and opaque white. Traces of cylindrical neck with tooling indent around base; piriform body; flat bottom with small, pushed-in center. Striped mosaic pattern formed from four lengths of a single cane consisting of parallel stripes in blue, purple, and white that were fused together, meeting in a cross on the bottom, tooled, and then blown. Body complete, but missing most of neck and rim; some large surface bubbles; pitting, slight dulling, and faint 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