Glass double head-shaped bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent greenish yellow. Rim folded out, round, and in; broad, flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, slanting backwards to serious face side, with lower part slightly indented; plastic body; flaring, circular base with rounded edges and slightly concave bottom, indented on edge below smiling face side. Mold seams visible on lower part of neck and sides of head. Body in the shape of two heads, back to back, one with a smiling face, the other with a serious face; both have hair in three arched tiers of small regular knobs, framing the faces and extending to chin; smiling face has arched eyebrows extending to aquiline nose, almond-shaped eyes with indents for pupils, open mouth, and rounded chin; serious face is similar but has a nose with broad, round nostrils, fatter lips, and a smaller chin. Intact, except for a small hole in hair of smiling face; dulling, slight pitting, patches of thick black weathering, and brilliant 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