Glass perfume bottle
Translucent purple, with opaque white trails.
Rounded and partially folded rim; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; globular body; concave bottom.
Striped mosaic pattern of applied double trail wound round in a spiral on a purple ground.
Intact; pitting, dulling, iridescence, and whitish weathering.
Rounded and partially folded rim; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; globular body; concave bottom.
Striped mosaic pattern of applied double trail wound round in a spiral on a purple ground.
Intact; pitting, dulling, iridescence, and whitish weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown and trailed
- Dimensions: Height: 2 3/4 in. (7.1 cm)
Diameter: 2 × 13/16 in. (5.1 × 2.1 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.324
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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