Glass perfume bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent light blue-green. Tubular rim folded out, down, round and in, and flattened on beveled top edge; tall cylindrical neck, expanding downward, with horizontal tooling marks around base; low conical body with convex-curving side; broad, flat bottom. Intact; many pinprick bubbles and some blowing striations; some pitting and dulling, iridescence, with small patches of thick weathering around rim on exterior, some soil encrustation and weathering 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