Glass carinated perfume bottle

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent cobalt blue.
Outsplayed, rounded rim; cylindrical neck, with deep horizontal tooled indent around base; narrow horizontal shoulder with projecting flange below; carinated body, with slightly concave profile to upper section and lower section curving in sharply to concave bottom.
Intact, except around rim, of which 2/3 is missing; some bubbles, elongated in neck; dulling, patches of pitting and iridescent weathering on exterior, whitish weathering on much of interior.

Blue, bell shaped.

Glass carinated perfume bottle, Glass, Roman

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