Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Translucent light blue; handles and base-knob in translucent blue green; trails in opaque white and opaque yellow.
Inward-sloping rim-disk, with tooling indent underneath; tall, slightly concave, cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; elongated piriform body; large applied knob-base; two rod handles applied in pads across shoulder, drawn up vertically to just below rim, then looped in and down, and attached to neck below rim over trail decoration.
Thick yellow trail applied to top of neck, wound in a spiral down neck and across shoulder to body; a white trail applied over yellow two-thirds down neck, wound round in a spiral to top of body, then tooled into a close-set festoon pattern with thirty-one irregular upward strokes, continuing in a plain spiral around lower part of body, ending under base knob.
Body complete, but one of handles broken and repaired, and large chip in base knob; some dulling and pitting, patches of limy enrustation on handles, and creamy brown weathering and iridescence, especially on trails.
Two handled vase with fern pattern.
Inward-sloping rim-disk, with tooling indent underneath; tall, slightly concave, cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; elongated piriform body; large applied knob-base; two rod handles applied in pads across shoulder, drawn up vertically to just below rim, then looped in and down, and attached to neck below rim over trail decoration.
Thick yellow trail applied to top of neck, wound in a spiral down neck and across shoulder to body; a white trail applied over yellow two-thirds down neck, wound round in a spiral to top of body, then tooled into a close-set festoon pattern with thirty-one irregular upward strokes, continuing in a plain spiral around lower part of body, ending under base knob.
Body complete, but one of handles broken and repaired, and large chip in base knob; some dulling and pitting, patches of limy enrustation on handles, and creamy brown weathering and iridescence, especially on trails.
Two handled vase with fern pattern.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
- Period: Hellenistic
- Date: 2nd–mid-1st century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group III
- Dimensions: H. 5 13/16 in. (14.8 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1240
- 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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