Glass perfume bottle (amphoriskos)
Translucent cobalt blue; translucent pale green handles.
Rim folded out, over, and in, with large irregular fold on one side extending across mouth; very short neck with concave side; piriform body, tapering downward to solid pointed bottom; two handles applied to top of body, drawn up and in, trailed on to top of neck and underside of rim, and extending back along handle.
Cracks on body around one large whole where one handle is completely missing, and pointed end of bottom also broken off; some bubbles; slight pitting and dulling, iridescence and patches of thick black weathering, especially on interior.
Rim folded out, over, and in, with large irregular fold on one side extending across mouth; very short neck with concave side; piriform body, tapering downward to solid pointed bottom; two handles applied to top of body, drawn up and in, trailed on to top of neck and underside of rim, and extending back along handle.
Cracks on body around one large whole where one handle is completely missing, and pointed end of bottom also broken off; some bubbles; slight pitting and dulling, iridescence and patches of thick black weathering, especially on interior.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle (amphoriskos)
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: H.: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Robert H. Van Court, 1919
- Object Number: 19.85.3
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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