Glass bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green; trails in same color. Everted rim, folded over and in; cylindrical neck, tapering downwards with horizontal indent at base; broad, sloping shoulder with rounded, slightly bulging outer edge; cylindrical body with sides tapering downwards; deep pushed-in bottom. On neck, one fine trail, applied as an elongated pad and wound twice round as two parallel lines; a second trail, farther down neck, wound round as one thicker overlapping line. Intact; a few bubbles and black impurities, especially in neck and rim, and numerous surface scratches of exterior of shoulder and side; some dulling, soil encrustation, brownish weathering, and iridescence. Tall, with threads on neck.

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