Glass bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; handle and trails in translucent cobalt blue. Thick rim, folded over and in, forming narrow, irregular mouth; tall cylindrical neck with slightly concave side and tooled horizontal indent at base; small piriform body; thick bottom, tooled into solid knob base tapering to point, with pontil scar; rod handle applied to sides of neck, forming arched loop over mouth. Trail decoration comprises eight elements: from top to bottom, a single horizontal trail around upper neck, a spiral trail wound four times around neck, another spiral trail wound five times around neck, a single thick horizontal trail around lower neck, a spiral trail wound eight time around body, a single thick horizontal trail around top of base knob, another single thick horizontal trail around lower down base knob, and a thick trail drawn across bottom of knob. Intact, but parts of trail around body missing and also one side of trail across bottom of knob base (all with weathered breaks); elongated bubbles in neck; dulling, 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