Glass bottle shaped like a bunch of grapes

Glass bottle shaped like a bunch of grapes

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless with pale green tinge; handles, foot, and trail in same color. Rounded and slightly thickened rim; flaring mouth; tall cylindrical neck; elongated ovoid body; applied broad foot ring with downturned rounded edge and hollow bottom; pontil scar at center of bottom; two handles attached to top of body with projecting pinched lug at base, drawn up in a curve and trailed onto neck (over trail decoration) with a loop above, and ending on outer edge of rim. Prominent vertical mold seam runs down body from top to bottom under handles. Single trail applied to underside of mouth and wound in a spiral down neck, ending near base; body shaped like a bunch of grapes, comprising nine interlocking but irregular row of hemispherical knobs. Complete, except for slight loss to lower end of trail around neck, a break and small chip in one handle, and internal cracks in foot ring and lower body; pinprick bubbles; dulling and iridescence covering most of surfaces.

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.