Glass perfume bottle
Translucent cobalt blue; opaque white trails.
Flaring rim, folded over and in, forming uneven mouth; cylindrical neck with horizontal tooling indent around base; slender, piriform body; flat bottom.
Mosaic pattern of a single cane in blue ground mixed with white stripes.
Intact, but two areas of deep pitting with jagged edges; many bubbles, some elongated; dulling, pitting of surface bubbles, iridescence, and greyish weathering.
Flaring rim, folded over and in, forming uneven mouth; cylindrical neck with horizontal tooling indent around base; slender, piriform body; flat bottom.
Mosaic pattern of a single cane in blue ground mixed with white stripes.
Intact, but two areas of deep pitting with jagged edges; many bubbles, some elongated; dulling, pitting of surface bubbles, iridescence, and greyish weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: Height: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
Diameter: 1 3/16 × 11/16 in. (3 × 1.8 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.562
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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2nd century CE
late 1st–2nd century CE
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3rd century CE
ca. 50–80 CE
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