Glass flask

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green. Plain, everted rim, with outward fold below; funnel-shaped mouth; cylindrical neck expanding downwards; narrow, concave shoulder surrounded by circular ridge; globular body; concave bottom. Below ridge, around top of body faint indentations; on lower body, a horizontal, thickened ridge. Complete, but cracked on one side of body; few bubbles; large areas covered with soil encrusation, thick weathering, and iridescence. The vessel was blown into a dip mold, withdrawn, and (over-) inflated to the present size and shape, so that most of the mold ribbing disappeared.

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