Glass hexagonal bottle

Glass hexagonal bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Opaque white. Plain rim with slight inward lip and flattened top edge; funnel-shaped neck, with pinched tooling marks at base; ovoid body; flat bottom. On shoulder, six pointed arches, each containing a large ovoid object in high relief; on body, six rectangular panels divided by columns, each with a capital and base and each panel containing a vessel: 1. a spouted and footed jug, with high handle to right; 2. a footed bowl with two curved handles at sides and wide mouth containing indisctinct round objects (fruit?); 3. a footed, round-bodied amphora with two handles on shoulder; 4. a footed bowl with tall cylindrical neck with vertical grooves, the mouth filled with small dimpled objects (grapes?); 5. a footed jug with high handle to right; 6. a footed, round-bodied amphora with two handles on shoulder; around bottom, six fillets, each suspended from under the center of one panel to the next, enclosing alternating large and small objects (fruit?) below each column; on bottom, two raised circles and indistinct central boss. Intact, except for small hole in shoulder; dulling, pitting of surface bubbles, and thick creamy weathering with faint iridescence.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.