Glass lentoid aryballos (perfume bottle)
Semi-opaque cobalt blue, with same color handles and cord; trails and blobs in opaque white.
Broad slightly uneven and slanting rim-disk; cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; globular lentoid body; convex bottom; two vertical ring handles attached to shoulder.
A trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another wound twice horizontally around neck; a circular marvered blob applied to both faces of body; a large cord, twisted together with a white trail, attached under handles runs down sides and across bottom.
Body complete, but part of rim missing and restored with fill; many tiny white inclusions in blue glass; some encrustation and weathering especially around handles and cord.
This bottle belongs to a small group of core-formed glass that may have been made in southern Italy, Sicily, or even Carthage. It has also been suggested that these bottles may have been worn as amuletic pendants around the neck.
Broad slightly uneven and slanting rim-disk; cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; globular lentoid body; convex bottom; two vertical ring handles attached to shoulder.
A trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another wound twice horizontally around neck; a circular marvered blob applied to both faces of body; a large cord, twisted together with a white trail, attached under handles runs down sides and across bottom.
Body complete, but part of rim missing and restored with fill; many tiny white inclusions in blue glass; some encrustation and weathering especially around handles and cord.
This bottle belongs to a small group of core-formed glass that may have been made in southern Italy, Sicily, or even Carthage. It has also been suggested that these bottles may have been worn as amuletic pendants around the neck.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass lentoid aryballos (perfume bottle)
- Period: Late Classical or Hellenistic
- Date: 4th–3rd century BCE
- Culture: Greek
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group II
- Dimensions: H.: 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm); D. 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.309
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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