Glass perfume bottle
Thick, heavy glass.
Translucent green with a blue tinge; trails in opaque white.
Rim folded out, down, round, and in, forming a broad, beveled upper lip; tall cylindrical neck with irregular tooling marks around base; conical body; concave bottom.
Marvered trails forming a tight spiral pattern on bottom and lower half of body, then in a stretched wavy spiral, extending up neck to rim.
Intact; very many bubbles, some elongated in neck, and a few impurities; dulling, pitting of surface bubbles, and faint iridescence, with soil encrustation and weathering on interior.
Translucent green with a blue tinge; trails in opaque white.
Rim folded out, down, round, and in, forming a broad, beveled upper lip; tall cylindrical neck with irregular tooling marks around base; conical body; concave bottom.
Marvered trails forming a tight spiral pattern on bottom and lower half of body, then in a stretched wavy spiral, extending up neck to rim.
Intact; very many bubbles, some elongated in neck, and a few impurities; dulling, pitting of surface bubbles, and faint iridescence, with soil encrustation and weathering on interior.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown with marvered trails
- Dimensions: H.: 5 3/16 in. (13.2 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.278
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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