Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Translucent blue, with same color pad-base; handles in translucent greenish yellow; trail in opaque yellow.
Narrow rim-disk, sloping inward with prominent jagged vertical lip to mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downward; broad convex sloping shoulder; straight-sided body, tapering downward; small circular pad-base, flattened on underside and with round edge; vestiges of two vertical s-shaped handles on outer edge of shoulder and neck.
Yellow trail applied to edge of rim-disk, wound spirally down neck and across shoulder, then tooled into a festoon pattern on body with sixteen upward strokes, and continuing in almost horizontal lines around pad-base at bottom.
Broken and repaired, almost all of handles missing, cracks and small holes on sholuder and top of body; dulling, pitting, iridescent weathering around rim-disk and neck, and creamy brown weathering on body and especially on trail.
Narrow rim-disk, sloping inward with prominent jagged vertical lip to mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downward; broad convex sloping shoulder; straight-sided body, tapering downward; small circular pad-base, flattened on underside and with round edge; vestiges of two vertical s-shaped handles on outer edge of shoulder and neck.
Yellow trail applied to edge of rim-disk, wound spirally down neck and across shoulder, then tooled into a festoon pattern on body with sixteen upward strokes, and continuing in almost horizontal lines around pad-base at bottom.
Broken and repaired, almost all of handles missing, cracks and small holes on sholuder and top of body; dulling, pitting, iridescent weathering around rim-disk and neck, and creamy brown weathering on body and especially on trail.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
- Period: Hellenistic
- Date: 2nd to mid–1st century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group III
- Dimensions: H.: 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)
Diam.: 2 1/16 in. (5.3 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.591
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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last quarter of the 6th century BCE
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ca. 540–530 BCE
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late 6th–5th century BCE
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