Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Translucent cobalt blue, with handle and base-knob in same color; trail in uncertain color.
Everted horizontal rim with rounded outer lip; cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; ovoid body, tapering downwards; applied base-knob; strap handle applied in a large pad to shoulder, drawn up and slightly outward, then curving in and pressed on to neck under rim.
Trail applied on neck below rim and wound down in spiral, drawn across shoulder, and then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around upper half of body, formed by uneven vertical tooling indents, and with an irregular raised line running aslant across shoulder.
Broken and repaired, with several holes in body and second handle completely missing; dulling, pitting, and iridescence, with large areas of thick, milky weathering.
Everted horizontal rim with rounded outer lip; cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; ovoid body, tapering downwards; applied base-knob; strap handle applied in a large pad to shoulder, drawn up and slightly outward, then curving in and pressed on to neck under rim.
Trail applied on neck below rim and wound down in spiral, drawn across shoulder, and then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around upper half of body, formed by uneven vertical tooling indents, and with an irregular raised line running aslant across shoulder.
Broken and repaired, with several holes in body and second handle completely missing; dulling, pitting, and iridescence, with large areas of thick, milky weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
- Period: Late Classical
- Date: 4th century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group II
- Dimensions: H.: 2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.231
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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