Glass hydriske (perfume bottle)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white and opaque yellow. Horizontal rim-disk, with rounded edge; cylindrical neck, with slight upward taper; broad almost horizontal rounded shoulder; ovoid body; applied circular pad-base, with uneven bottom; on sides of upper body, two small vertical loop handles; strap handle applied at junction of shoulder and body in a pad and pressed on to underside of rim-disk and top of neck. Unmarvered yellow and white trails attached on shoulder and wound round; both trails tooled in a close-set zigzag pattern with deep vertical ribs over top half of body, then white trail continuing down in a spiral around lower body. Complete, except for most of one loop handle and strap handle; dulling and pitting, with patches of brownish weathering and faint iridescence.

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