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Eros, God of Love (00:49:32) 871 views
Glass perfume bottle
Glass mosaic perfume bottle
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Colorless with pale blue-green tinge.Thick, rounded rim, folded out, over, and in, with fairly broad collar to mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downward and tooled in around base; elongated piriform body; pushed-in bottom with kick and slight trace of pontil scar.Intact; a few elongated and pinprick bubbles; slight dulling on exterior; iridescent weathering on interior.
From Cyprus
Myres, J.L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 5298, p. 509.
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