Glass perfume bottle
Translucent pale green; trails in opaque white.
Thick, tubular (?) rim, folded out, down, round, and in, flattened on top, with irregular inner lip; tall cylindrical neck with slightly concave profile; low conical body with rounded edge at base; pushed-in bottom with central pontil scar.
Marvered trails in wavy spiral patterns running from rim to bottom.
Intact; elongated bubbles in neck; pitting and weathering of trails, and iridescent creamy weathering.
Thick, heavy bottle.
Thick, tubular (?) rim, folded out, down, round, and in, flattened on top, with irregular inner lip; tall cylindrical neck with slightly concave profile; low conical body with rounded edge at base; pushed-in bottom with central pontil scar.
Marvered trails in wavy spiral patterns running from rim to bottom.
Intact; elongated bubbles in neck; pitting and weathering of trails, and iridescent creamy weathering.
Thick, heavy bottle.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown with marvered trails
- Dimensions: H.: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.280
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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