Glass perfume bottle
Translucent deep blue-green.
Rim folded out, over, and in, with slightly beveled and irregular upper lip; cylindrical neck expanding downward, with tooled indent around base; squat piriform body, curving in sharply to bottom with slightly concave center.
Intact; many bubbles; heavily pitted and weathered, with patches of creamy weathering and brilliant iridescence.
Rim folded out, over, and in, with slightly beveled and irregular upper lip; cylindrical neck expanding downward, with tooled indent around base; squat piriform body, curving in sharply to bottom with slightly concave center.
Intact; many bubbles; heavily pitted and weathered, with patches of creamy weathering and brilliant iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: H.: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915
- Object Number: 15.43.259
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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