Glass perfume bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue. Flaring, alien rim with horizontal tooled indent below; tall neck, expanding downwards; sloping shoulder with irregular indent on one side; globular body; thick pad base with off-center kick in bottom. Decorated with nineteen fine vertical ribs, extending from edge of base to top of neck. Body and neck complete, but broken around top with most of rim missing; pinprick bubbles and a small group of white, glassy inclusions in one side of body; dulling, some pitting, and iridescent weathering.

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