Glass perfume bottle
Translucent light blue.
Everted, funnel-shaped rim, with rounded lip; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards, with horizontal tooling indent around base; elongated piriform body; thick, flat bottom.
Complete, except for large weathered chip in rim; some severe pitting of surface bubbles, thick creamy weathering around rim, dulling, and brilliant iridescence.
Everted, funnel-shaped rim, with rounded lip; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards, with horizontal tooling indent around base; elongated piriform body; thick, flat bottom.
Complete, except for large weathered chip in rim; some severe pitting of surface bubbles, thick creamy weathering around rim, dulling, and brilliant iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle
- Period: Imperial
- Date: late 1st–3rd century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: H.: 7 15/16 in. (20.2 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915
- Object Number: 15.43.148
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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