Glass lentoid flask

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale green, with same color handles, base, and trails. Rounded, thickened rim; funnel-shaped mouth joining imperceptibly with tall, cylindrical neck, expanding slightly downward to globular lentoid body; applied small circular pad base made by coiling, with pontil scar on bottom; two rod handles applied at sides of lentoid body, drawn upward and curved inward, and attached at mid-point of neck over trail. Single fine trail wound in a spiral around neck, ending on underside of mouth. Intact, but lower part of trail missing; some pinprick bubbles in body, many elongated bubbles and some black impurities in handles; some dulling and small areas of pitting, iridescence and creamy brown 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