Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Translucent light blue; opaque yellow and white trail; handles and knob base in translucent yellowish green.
Inward-sloping rim-disk; thick-walled neck, tapering slightly downward, then expanding to join sloping shoulder; elongated ovoid body, tapering in to pointed bottom, with applied knob base; two strap handles applied to shoulder and upper part of neck.
Trails applied at rim, drawn down in a spiral around neck, across shoulder, down body and trailed off at bottom, with plain spiral at top and bottom, but tooled into an even, narrow festoon pattern around sides with 25 upward strokes. Yellow applied first and white overlaid.
Broken and repaired around rim and neck with some areas missing; knob base and both handles missing; a few bubbles; slight dulling, pitting, and iridescent weathering.
Very narrow opening at base of neck
Inward-sloping rim-disk; thick-walled neck, tapering slightly downward, then expanding to join sloping shoulder; elongated ovoid body, tapering in to pointed bottom, with applied knob base; two strap handles applied to shoulder and upper part of neck.
Trails applied at rim, drawn down in a spiral around neck, across shoulder, down body and trailed off at bottom, with plain spiral at top and bottom, but tooled into an even, narrow festoon pattern around sides with 25 upward strokes. Yellow applied first and white overlaid.
Broken and repaired around rim and neck with some areas missing; knob base and both handles missing; a few bubbles; slight dulling, pitting, and iridescent weathering.
Very narrow opening at base of neck
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
- Period: Late Hellenistic
- Date: 1st century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Cypriot
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group III
- Dimensions: Overall: 5 5/8 x 1 15/16in. (14.3 x 4.9cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
- Object Number: 74.51.324
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Attributed to a painter of the Princeton Group
ca. 540–530 BCE
last quarter of the 6th century BCE
late 6th–5th century BCE
late 6th–5th century BCE
late 6th–5th century BCE
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