Glass perfume bottle
Translucent blue green.
Rim folded out, partially down, round and in, with beveled outer edge on one side; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck with slight horizontal tooling marks around base; irregular, small conical body; pushed-in bottom.
Intact; many pinprick and some large and elongated bubbles; iridescence and slight weathering on exterior, some soil encrustation and brownish weathering with brilliant iridescence on interior.
Rim folded out, partially down, round and in, with beveled outer edge on one side; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck with slight horizontal tooling marks around base; irregular, small conical body; pushed-in bottom.
Intact; many pinprick and some large and elongated bubbles; iridescence and slight weathering on exterior, some soil encrustation and brownish weathering with brilliant iridescence on interior.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle
- Period: Imperial
- Date: late 1st–3rd century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: H.: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)
Diam.: 1 1/2 x 1 5/16 in. (3.8 x 3.3 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.124
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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