Glass two-handled bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale purple; handles, disk, trail, and pontil stud in translucent pale blue green. Everted rim folded over and in; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards and joining imperceptibly with piriform body; deep pushed-in bottom with central pontil stud; hollow disk around neck, applied over spiral trail; two slender rod handles, attached to upper body with long trails down sides almost to bottom, drawn up (one as angular loop, the other as a straight line), turned in, and pressed on to edge of disk, each with a tooled vertical projection above. Fine trail applied below rim, trailed down neck in a spiral fourteen times, ending on upper body; downward trails to handles with tooled horizontal notches. Intact; pinprick bubbles; dulling, slight pitting, iridescence, and patches of brownish weathering. Purple, pear shaped vase with blue handles and collar, and glass threads around neck.

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