Glass globular bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green. Collared rim, folded out, down, round, and up, with slight raise lip to mouth; tall cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; globular body; base with rounded edge and concave bottom. One continuous mold seam around body and across bottom, extending to base of neck and forming a raised line across bottom. Body decorated in matching relief designs on the two sides: a central twelve-petalled rosette within two concentric circles, and six pelta-like crescents with curling finials and central triangles together with bosses, flanked by a vertical line. The lowest of the crescents on each side is partially obscured by the base. Broken and repaired at middle of neck, and base chipped and cracked on one side; some bubbles, elongated in neck; one side with soil encrustation and dulling on exterior, whitish 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