Glass two-handled bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue; handles in same color. Everted rim, folded down, round, and in; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; ovoid body; concave bottom; two rod handles applied to side of neck, drawn up, round, down, and in in a curving loop, and pressed on to base of neck and top of body with flat pad and sliced off edge. Intact; many bubbles, with a few very large; little weathering on exterior, patches of faint weathering and iridescence on interior. Blown, blue, two added handled.

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