Glass one-handled bottle

Glass one-handled bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent very pale green; handle in same color. Collared rim, folded out, down, round up, and out, forming horizontal lip; cylindrical neck with horizontal tooling indent around base; broad, slightly sloping shoulder; cylindrical body with slightly convex side; concave bottom; broad, reeded strap handle, applied to edge of shoulder, drawn up vertically, turned in and down, and trailed onto neck below fold in rim. Faint wheel-abraded horizontal bands on body. Intact; few bubbles, but many bubbles and black impurities in handle; dulling, brown limy encrustation, and faint iridescence on exterior, patches of iridescent weathering on interior. Greenish cylindrical jug with one handle; wheel-cut decoration on body.

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.