Glass mosaic perfume bottle

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent blue, with opaque white trails.
Rounded, uneven rim; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; almost horizontal shoulder; squat bulbous body; slightly flattened bottom.
Trails applied in a spiral from rim to bottom, marvered into an irregular wavy pattern of lighter and darker bands.
Intact; few pinprick bubbles, and one inclusion in side of body; pitting of opaque white on neck and bottom, dulling, and patches of iridescent weathering.

Glass mosaic perfume bottle, Glass, Roman

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