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Fancy Glass and Boudoir Scenes

Elegant in shape and all too delicate in construction, this perfume bottle (unguentarium) shows boudoir scenes executed in cameo glass – the exceptionally fancy technique thought to date to the Augustan period. Here the festoons, bedding, and two amorous pairs of different flavours (the homoerotic one is shown here) are crisply carved into a milky

John Marshall and Shaping the Met

Throw a stone (metaphorically!) in the Met’s Greek and Roman galleries and you’re sure to hit an antiquity procured for the museum in the early 20th century by John Marshall. Although not terribly well known today, his impact in the antiquities market is difficult to overstate. And this photo of the man himself, at his