Glass mosaic perfume bottle
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.
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass mosaic perfume bottle
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st half of 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown with marvered trails
- Dimensions: cleanH.: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.257
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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