Glass bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; handles and trails in translucent deep turquoise blue, streaked with dark red. Thick rim folded over and in; cylindrical neck, tapering downwards and tooled in at base; elongated, slender piriform body; large tubular base ring made by folding; almost flat bottom with central pontil scar; two rod handles applied as long trails on sides of body, drawn up to just below junction with neck, then drawn out, up, and in as loops, pressed onto lower part of neck over trail and trailed off above. The handle trails are decorated with numerous, irregular, tooled notches; a trail applied under rim and wound around three times; another trail wound horizontally 1½ times around lower part of neck. Intact; some bubbles, black impurities, and blowing striations; slight weathering and iridescence on exterior, creamy white weathering and iridescence on interior.

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