Glass perfume bottle
Colorless with blue green tinge.
Tubular rim folded down, over, and in, and pressed into everted mouth; cylindrical neck flaring downward, with irregular shape at top from tooling; broad, almost flat body, with convex side, curving out and downward; pushed-in bottom with central kick and large pontil mark.
Complete except for about half of rim and mouth, and internal cracks in body; some pinprick bubbles; dulling, iridescence, and patches of creamy brown weathering.
This unusually large bottle with its broad, shallow body, belongs to a type that is often called the ‘candlestick unguentarium.’
Tubular rim folded down, over, and in, and pressed into everted mouth; cylindrical neck flaring downward, with irregular shape at top from tooling; broad, almost flat body, with convex side, curving out and downward; pushed-in bottom with central kick and large pontil mark.
Complete except for about half of rim and mouth, and internal cracks in body; some pinprick bubbles; dulling, iridescence, and patches of creamy brown weathering.
This unusually large bottle with its broad, shallow body, belongs to a type that is often called the ‘candlestick unguentarium.’
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle
- Period: Mid Imperial
- Date: 2nd–3rd century CE
- Culture: Roman, Cypriot
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm)
Other: 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm)
Other (rim): 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
- Object Number: 74.51.16
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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