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Translucent blue green.
Tubular rim, folded out, round, and in, with flattened upper surface; slender cylindrical neck with slightly concave profile and tooling marks around base; squat bulbous body; flat but slightly uneven bottom.
Intact; many pinprick bubbles; dulling, encrustation, and patches of brilliant iridescence and deep pitting on exterior, creamy weathering on interior, with some soil encrustation on inside of neck.
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Title: Glass perfume bottle
Period: Mid Imperial
Date: late 1st–mid-2nd century CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Glass; blown
Dimensions: H.: 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number: 17.194.79
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