Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Translucent blue, with same color pad-base and handles; trail in opaque yellow.
Slanting rim-disk, sloping inward, with thick rounded outer edge and jagged vertical lip to mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downward; broad sloping shoulder; straight-sided ovoid body; broad circular pad-base, flattened but uneven on underside and with round edge; two vertical s-shaped handles applied on shoulder, trailed up along lower part of neck, and pressed on to underside of rim and top neck.
Yellow trail applied to edge of rim-disk, wound spirally down neck and across shoulder, where it is tooled into a festoon pattern, with nine upward strokes, continuing in almost horizontal lines at top of body but then tooled into a feather pattern in six uneven panels of alternating upward and downward strokes over rest of body to pad-base.
Complete except for chip in rim and upper half of one handle; dulling, slight iridescence, and creamy brown weathering, especially on trail.
Slanting rim-disk, sloping inward, with thick rounded outer edge and jagged vertical lip to mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downward; broad sloping shoulder; straight-sided ovoid body; broad circular pad-base, flattened but uneven on underside and with round edge; two vertical s-shaped handles applied on shoulder, trailed up along lower part of neck, and pressed on to underside of rim and top neck.
Yellow trail applied to edge of rim-disk, wound spirally down neck and across shoulder, where it is tooled into a festoon pattern, with nine upward strokes, continuing in almost horizontal lines at top of body but then tooled into a feather pattern in six uneven panels of alternating upward and downward strokes over rest of body to pad-base.
Complete except for chip in rim and upper half of one handle; dulling, slight iridescence, and creamy brown weathering, 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.: 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm)
Other: 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm)
Diam.: 2 3/16 x 1 1/4 in. (5.5 x 3.2 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.593
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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