Glass rectangular bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green, with same color handles. Thick rim folded out, round, and in, and pressed into top of broad, oval mouth; oval neck, expanding downwards, with tooling indents around base; horizontal shoulder with rounded, sloping corners; vertical, thick-walled sides, with irregular patterns of shallow grooves on front and back (from mold ?); rectangular bottom with irregular, off-center indent; two broad strap handles, tooled into three ribs on outer surface, attached to outer edge of shoulder on short sides, drawn up vertically, turned in at an acute angle and trailed onto top of neck and underside of rim. Mold mark on bottom comprising a large lozenge enclosing a circle in relief. Cracked and broken, with about half of rim missing and one hole in top of body below one handle; slight dulling and iridescence on exterior; areas of thick soil encrustation, weathering, and iridescence 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