Glass perfume bottle

Glass perfume bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue. Rim folded out, down, round, and in, forming vertical lip; short cylindrical neck, with tooling marks around base; conical shoulder with horizontal tooled indent around base; squat bulbous body; concave bottom. Body intact, but part of rim missing, with weathered edges, and crack in side of body; some bubbles and blowing striations; dulling, pitting, and iridescence on exterior, with one patch of thick milky weathering below rim, soil encrustation and thick weathering on interior of neck.


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.