Glass perfume bottle

Roman

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Translucent dark purple; opaque white trails.
Everted rim, folded over and in; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards, with horizontal tooled indent around base; globular body; small, flat bottom.
Marvered trail decoration on entire body from rim to bottom, most of which is now missing through devitrification.
Complete, but cracks in body; pinprick bubbles; deep pitting on exterior, thick brown weathering and brilliant iridescence on interior.

Glass perfume bottle, Glass, Roman

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