Glass perfume bottle
Small perfume bottle
Colorless with pale bluish tinge and streaked with purple.
Beveled rim, folded out, over, and in; tall cylindrical neck, tooled in around base; conical body with rounded sides turned in to uneven, flattened bottom.
Wheel-cut horizontal groove around body.
Intact; many pinprick bubbles and blowing striations; dulling, some pitting, and iridescent weathering on rim and interior of neck.
Colorless with pale bluish tinge and streaked with purple.
Beveled rim, folded out, over, and in; tall cylindrical neck, tooled in around base; conical body with rounded sides turned in to uneven, flattened bottom.
Wheel-cut horizontal groove around body.
Intact; many pinprick bubbles and blowing striations; dulling, some pitting, and iridescent weathering on rim and interior of neck.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown and cut
- Dimensions: 2 5/16 x 1 7/16in. (5.9 x 3.6cm)
Diam. of rim: 11/16 in. (1.8 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
- Object Number: 74.51.168
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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