Glass double head flask

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent green, with same color trail. Everted rim with plain rounded lip; cylindrical neck expanding slightly downwards; body in the shape of a double head; circular base with uneven flat bottom and rounded, slightly bulging edge. Raised mold seam runs down side of body. On underside or rim, solid round trail, forming collar; on body, two heads, back to back, with similar features: hair rendered as three rows of evenly-spaced knobs framing the faces to below chin level, arched brows, almond-shaped eyes with recessed pupils, pointed nose, small mouth with full lips, fat cheeks, and rounded chin, with horizontal band or collar around neck. Broken and repaired with losses to rim and body; many bubbles; pitting, dulling, and iridescent weathering.

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