Glass mosaic perfume bottle

Roman

Not on view

Translucent cobalt blue and purple, and opaque white.

Traces of cylindrical neck with tooling indent around base; piriform body; flat bottom with small, pushed-in center.

Striped mosaic pattern formed from four lengths of a single cane consisting of parallel stripes in blue, purple, and white that were fused together, meeting in a cross on the bottom, tooled, and then blown.

Body complete, but missing most of neck and rim; some large surface bubbles; pitting, slight dulling, and faint iridescence.

Glass mosaic perfume bottle, Glass, Roman

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