Glass sprinkler flask

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale green. Uneven, rounded rim, flaring upwards, with projecting folded flange below; broad mouth; short cylindrical neck, curving in slightly at base, where it has a folded diaphragm with small hole at center; globular body; flat bottom, slightly pushed-in at center with small round pontil mark. On lower half of body, three irregular horizontal rows of tooled knobs (11 in top row, 12 in middle, and 9 in bottom). Intact; a few bubbles and black impurities; some limy soil encrustation, creamy 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