Glass two-handled bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green; handles and trail in translucent turquoise blue. Tubular rim, folded out, over, and in; tall, slightly concave cylindrical neck, with tooled horizontal indent around base; squat, bulbous body; pushed-in bottom with pontil mark; two handles applied in pads with tooled outward projections onto upper body, drawn up and curved in onto neck and trailed off vertically up neck with tooled projections above. Around body a single trail applied horizontally in an irregular zigzag pattern. Intact; bubbles and blowing striations; dulling, slight pitting, creamy brown weathering, and 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