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Small perfume bottle
Translucent blue green.
Thick rim folded out, over, and in; funnel-shaped neck, with slight tooling marks around base; horizontal shoulder with sloping edges; roughly squared body with slightly indented sides; pushed-in bottom with pontil scar.
Intact; many bubbles and surface glassy inclusions on one side; dulling, faint iridescence, and patches of creamy weathering.
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Title: Glass perfume bottle
Period: Mid Imperial
Date: 2nd–3rd century CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Glass; blown
Dimensions:
1 3/8 x 7/8in. (3.5 x 2.2cm)
Diam. of rim: 11/16 in. (1.8 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Object Number: 74.51.174
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