Glass bottle fragment

Glass bottle fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue; trails in opaque white. Body fragment curving in at top towards shoulder. White trails tooled into feather pattern. Pitting of surface bubbles; rough surface on interior with pitting and creamy brown weathering. The fragment may belong to an alabastron, but the feather pattern is unusual since it does not have a large 'eye' at the top from the end of the tooling stroke.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.