Glass bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent deep green, streaked with red; trails in opaque white. Rim slightly everted and partially turned into mouth, flattened on top; tall, slender neck with slightly concave profile and horizontal tooled indent around the base; squat, biconical body; small bottom, slightly concave at center. A thick single trail applied around edge of rim and flattened across top of rim; another trail applied around mid-point on neck as a coil, forming a thin projecting disk; a third trail applied to bottom edge of body as an outsplayed base ring. Intact; bubbles and some gritty inclusions; dulling, surface pitting of bubbles, and faint iridescence.

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