Glass multi-sided bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent purple, with handles in greyish colorless glass streaked with purple. Cylindrical neck; lentoid body comprising seven slanting panels surrounding a central vertical face on each side; projecting hollow base pad; handles to top of body in a pad, drawn up, turned in and down, and pressed onto neck. Continuous mold seam runs from base of neck, down edge of sides, and across bottom, with a gap between the two halves of the mold causing a flat, solid, rounded pad to form on one edge between lower body and bottom. On body, two concentric circles and central dot in relief on the vertical face. Broken around top of neck, rim and most of one handle missing, with hole in side where bottom of handle was attached; some bubbles, especially in handle; slight dulling and iridescence on exterior, thick soil encrustation and brilliant iridescent weathering on interior.

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