Glass perfume bottle with opaque white trail

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue; trail in opaque white. Outsplayed, rounded, and slightly thickened rim; tall neck, joining imperceptibly with slender piriform body, drawn out at base into solid knob. Trail applied on knob base, wound round and up in a spiral 12 times across body, ending at base of neck. Broken and repaired with one large gap in rim; pinprick bubbles; slight brownish weathering. Blue spindle shaped vase with very long neck and pointed bottom; wound with white glass threads.

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