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Small perfume bottle
Translucent cobalt blue.
Plain, rounded rim; flaring mouth; slightly convex, cylindrical neck, with tooling marks around base; piriform body; flat bottom with traces of a circular pontil mark.
Intact; some pinprick bubbles; dulling and faint iridescence on exterior; patches of soli encrustation and iridescent weathering on interior.
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Title: Glass perfume bottle
Period: Early Imperial
Date: 1st century CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Glass; blown
Dimensions:
1 7/8 x 1 1/4in. (4.8 x 3.2cm)
Diam. of rim: 9/16 in. (1.5 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Accession Number: 74.51.178
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