Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Translucent dark cobalt blue, appearing black, with same color handles; single trail in opaque yellow.
Horizontal rim with rounded edge and radiating tooling marks on top surface; cylindrical neck; broad sloping shoulder; ovoid body; pointed bottom; two vertical strap handles applied to shoulder, drawn up in a curve, then turned in and attached to top of neck and underside of rim.
Trail applied below rim, wound spirally twice around neck and drawn down across shoulder to body, tooled into a zigzag pattern with close-set vertical indents around upper half of body, and ending as an uneven horizontal line.
Body complete, but large chip in rim; base-knob missing and crack on lower part of body; only slight dulling and pitting.
Horizontal rim with rounded edge and radiating tooling marks on top surface; cylindrical neck; broad sloping shoulder; ovoid body; pointed bottom; two vertical strap handles applied to shoulder, drawn up in a curve, then turned in and attached to top of neck and underside of rim.
Trail applied below rim, wound spirally twice around neck and drawn down across shoulder to body, tooled into a zigzag pattern with close-set vertical indents around upper half of body, and ending as an uneven horizontal line.
Body complete, but large chip in rim; base-knob missing and crack on lower part of body; only slight dulling and pitting.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
- Period: Late Classical or Hellenistic
- Date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group II
- Dimensions: H.: 2 13/16 in. (7.2 cm)
Diam.: 1 9/16 x 1 11/16 in. (3.9 x 4.3 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.764
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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