Glass perfume bottle

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent blue green.
Broad tubular rim, folded out, down, over and in, with flattened upper surface; tall cylindrical neck, slightly concave in profile, with tooled line around base; bell-shaped body with concave side and rounded lower edge; concave bottom.
Intact; some bubbles and blowing striations; slight dulling and iridescence on exterior, with soil encrustation and whitish weathering on underside of rim, soil encrustation, brown weathering, and iridescence on interior, especially on neck.

With long neck.

Glass perfume bottle, Glass, Roman

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