Glass perfume bottle
Spindle-shaped unguentarium.
Translucent pale blue green.
Horizontal rounded rim with slight vertical lip on top edge; broad mouth; cylindrical neck with tooled indent around base; low, conical body with thick rounded edge at base; pushed-in bottom with central pontil mark.
Intact, but crack running from rim to lower body; many bubbles and blowing striations; pitting, dulling, and brilliant iridescence with patches of brown enamel-like weathering.
Translucent pale blue green.
Horizontal rounded rim with slight vertical lip on top edge; broad mouth; cylindrical neck with tooled indent around base; low, conical body with thick rounded edge at base; pushed-in bottom with central pontil mark.
Intact, but crack running from rim to lower body; many bubbles and blowing striations; pitting, dulling, and brilliant iridescence with patches of brown enamel-like weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle
- Period: Mid Imperial
- Date: 2nd–3rd century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: H.: 3 x 2 11/16 x 2 1/16 in. (7.6 x 6.8 x 5.2 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
- Object Number: 74.51.5839
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Manufactory Vienna
Factory director Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier period
ca. 1730
Roman
1st century CE
Roman
early to mid-1st century CE
Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
1st century BCE–early 1st century CE
Roman
1st century CE
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