Glass perfume bottle
Translucent yellow brown.
Everted rim, folded over and in, and flattened on upper surface around oval mouth; cylindrical neck, joining imperceptibly with piriform body; small concave bottom.
Intact, but small weathered hole below rim in top of neck; many bubbles and blowing striations; deep pitting and brilliant iridescence on exterior, thick soil encrustation and weathering on interior.
Everted rim, folded over and in, and flattened on upper surface around oval mouth; cylindrical neck, joining imperceptibly with piriform body; small concave bottom.
Intact, but small weathered hole below rim in top of neck; many bubbles and blowing striations; deep pitting and brilliant iridescence on exterior, thick soil encrustation and weathering on interior.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: H.: 3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1281
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Manufactory Vienna
Factory director Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier period
ca. 1730
Roman
2nd–3rd century CE
Roman
1st half of 1st century CE
Roman
1st half of 1st century CE
Roman
1st half of 1st century CE
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