Glass lentoid bottle with two handles

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; handle in same color. Thick, outsplayed, tubular rim, folded over and into shallow flaring mouth; cylindrical neck; lentoid body with rounded sides; thick, narrow oval bottom, slightly concave, with central pontil scar; two rod handles applied as large claw-like pads on lower neck, twisted round, up and outwards, tooled in with a downward fold, attached to edge of rim, and tooled off above. On body, twelve irregular vertical ribs, made by tooling. Intact; many pinprick bubbles and some blowing striation; dulling, pitting, creamy weathering, and iridescence, with soil encrustation 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