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Small perfume bottle
Translucent blue.
Rim folded out, over, and in; flaring mouth; cylindrical but slightly concave neck; lobsided sloping shoulder; roughly squared body with two indented sides; kick in bottom with traces of round pontil mark.
Intact; many bubbles and some white gritty inclusions; slight pitting and patches of iridescent weathering.
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Title: Glass perfume bottle
Period: Late Imperial
Date: 3rd–4th century CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Glass; blown and tooled
Dimensions:
1 3/8 x 5/8in. (3.5 x 1.6cm)
Diam. of rim: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Object Number: 74.51.165
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