Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)
Opaque dark purple, appearing black, with lighter red brown streaks, with same color handles; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.
Inward-sloping rim-disk with rough protruding edge to mouth; short concave neck; broad sloping shoulder; almost spherical body; convex, slightly uneven bottom; two ring handles with knobbed tails extend from shoulder to neck and underside of rim-disk.
A yellow trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk, with top of neck folded over part of trail; yellow and turquoise blue trails applied in a band around the upper half of body and tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern, formed by uneven, shallow vertical tooling indents; below this, two separate yellow and turquoise blue trails added vertically to lower body and wound once round bottom in an irregular swirl; one raised yellow blob on edge of shoulder on one side.
Intact, except for one small chip in rim-disk; dulling, pitting, and heavily weathered with patches of milky white iridescence.
Inward-sloping rim-disk with rough protruding edge to mouth; short concave neck; broad sloping shoulder; almost spherical body; convex, slightly uneven bottom; two ring handles with knobbed tails extend from shoulder to neck and underside of rim-disk.
A yellow trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk, with top of neck folded over part of trail; yellow and turquoise blue trails applied in a band around the upper half of body and tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern, formed by uneven, shallow vertical tooling indents; below this, two separate yellow and turquoise blue trails added vertically to lower body and wound once round bottom in an irregular swirl; one raised yellow blob on edge of shoulder on one side.
Intact, except for one small chip in rim-disk; dulling, pitting, and heavily weathered with patches of milky white iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)
- Period: Classical
- Date: 5th century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group I
- Dimensions: 2 1/4 × 2 1/16 in. (5.7 × 5.2 cm)
Diam. of rim: 1 in. (2.6 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1336
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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