Glass bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; handles and trails in same color. Rounded rim; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck; narrow sloping shoulder; tall, cylindrical body with slightly convex side; thick rounded bottom with deep pontil scar; two handles applied in pads to edge of shoulder, drawn up and outwards, then turned down and trailed onto neck above trail decoration. A horizontal trail wound once around underside of mouth; another horizontal trail wound once around lower part of neck; on body; thirty-two faint vertical or slightly wavy ribs, formed by dip mold. Intact; pinprick bubbles, and a few black impurities in handles; dulling and creamy brown weathering on exterior, soil encrustation, weathering, and brilliant 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