Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)
Translucent cobalt blue, with same color handles; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.
Broad inward-sloping rim-disk; short cylindrical neck, tapering downwards; right-angled shoulder; almost spherical body; convex, somewhat pointed bottom; two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration, extend from shoulder to underside of rim-disk.
Yellow trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk; another yellow trail applied on upper body and wound spirally, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around central section of body, formed by shallow vertical tooling indents; two thick turquoise blue trails applied over yellow, forming a bold, even design; below this, a single yellow trail wound horizontally around body; a turquoise blue trail applied along outer edge of one handle.
Broken and repaired on rim, neck, and shoulder, with part of rim-disk, neck, and one handle missing; slight dulling and pitting, and small patches of iridescent milky weathering on rim, neck, and handles.
Broad inward-sloping rim-disk; short cylindrical neck, tapering downwards; right-angled shoulder; almost spherical body; convex, somewhat pointed bottom; two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration, extend from shoulder to underside of rim-disk.
Yellow trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk; another yellow trail applied on upper body and wound spirally, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around central section of body, formed by shallow vertical tooling indents; two thick turquoise blue trails applied over yellow, forming a bold, even design; below this, a single yellow trail wound horizontally around body; a turquoise blue trail applied along outer edge of one handle.
Broken and repaired on rim, neck, and shoulder, with part of rim-disk, neck, and one handle missing; slight dulling and pitting, and small patches of iridescent milky weathering on rim, neck, and handles.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)
- Period: Classical
- Date: late 6th–5th century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group I
- Dimensions: H. 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.758
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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