Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Opaque white, with handles in same color but base-knob in translucent purple; trails in translucent purple and opaque white.
Broad, inward-sloping rim-disk; tall, concave neck; rounded shoulder; elongated ovoid body; large circular base-knob with rounded edge and flat bottom; two vertical strap handles drawn up from shoulder, turned in, and pressed on to top of neck.
One fine purple trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a thick layer of purple glass applied to body from shoulder to bottom and an opaque white trail applied over it and tooled into a zigzag pattern with deep vertical tooling indents around upper body; flattened blob of opaque white applied to bottom of knob-base.
Complete but broken and repaired on one side of rim-disk with parts of trail missing; dulling, deep pitting, iridescence, and thick creamy weathering.
Broad, inward-sloping rim-disk; tall, concave neck; rounded shoulder; elongated ovoid body; large circular base-knob with rounded edge and flat bottom; two vertical strap handles drawn up from shoulder, turned in, and pressed on to top of neck.
One fine purple trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a thick layer of purple glass applied to body from shoulder to bottom and an opaque white trail applied over it and tooled into a zigzag pattern with deep vertical tooling indents around upper body; flattened blob of opaque white applied to bottom of knob-base.
Complete but broken and repaired on one side of rim-disk with parts of trail missing; dulling, deep pitting, iridescence, and thick creamy weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
- Period: Classical
- Date: late 6th–5th century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group I
- Dimensions: H.: 4 11/16 in. (12 cm)
Diam.: 2 5/16 x 1 3/8 in. (5.9 x 3.6 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.761
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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ca. 540–530 BCE
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