Glass perfume bottle
Uncertain, possibly colorless.
Everted rim, folded over and in, with beveled upper surface; cylindrical neck, with horizontal tooling marks around base; piriform body; concave bottom.
On body, two broad horizontal cut grooves: one immediately below neck, the other midway down side.
Intact, but a crack in rim and upper neck; pinprick bubbles and blowing striations; deep pitting and brilliant iridescent weathering.
Everted rim, folded over and in, with beveled upper surface; cylindrical neck, with horizontal tooling marks around base; piriform body; concave bottom.
On body, two broad horizontal cut grooves: one immediately below neck, the other midway down side.
Intact, but a crack in rim and upper neck; pinprick bubbles and blowing striations; deep pitting and brilliant iridescent weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown and cut
- Dimensions: H.: 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1305
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Probably Wistarburgh Glassworks
1738–ca. 1777
19th century
Attributed to American Flint Glass Manufactory
Attributed to Henry William Stiegel
1769–74
late 13th century
Roman
2nd half of 1st–3rd century CE
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