Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Opaque white, with handles and base-knob in same color; trails in translucent purple.
Broad, inward-sloping rim-disk, aslant to neck; cylindrical neck with concave sides; broad sloping shoulder; elongated ovoid body tapering to a point; circular base-knob with rounded edge; two vertical strap handles applied over trails, drawn up from top of shoulder, turned in, and pressed on to neck.
One trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another trail applied at base of neck, wound round in a spiral on shoulder, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern on upper half of body; below this, another thinner trail wound round twice horizontally; a third fine trail around bottom edge of base-knob.
Complete, except for weathered chip in rim-disk; dulling, pitting, faint iridescence, and most of body covered with creamy iridescent weathering.
Broad, inward-sloping rim-disk, aslant to neck; cylindrical neck with concave sides; broad sloping shoulder; elongated ovoid body tapering to a point; circular base-knob with rounded edge; two vertical strap handles applied over trails, drawn up from top of shoulder, turned in, and pressed on to neck.
One trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another trail applied at base of neck, wound round in a spiral on shoulder, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern on upper half of body; below this, another thinner trail wound round twice horizontally; a third fine trail around bottom edge of base-knob.
Complete, except for weathered chip in rim-disk; dulling, pitting, faint iridescence, and most of body covered with creamy iridescent 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: Diam.: 2 7/8 in. (7.2 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.790
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Attributed to a painter of the Princeton Group
ca. 540–530 BCE
last quarter of the 6th century BCE
late 6th–5th century BCE
late 6th–5th century BCE
late 6th–5th century BCE
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