Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Opaque streaky red brown, with handles and base-knob in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.
Outsplayed, inward-sloping rim-disk; cylindrical neck; broad sloping shoulder; ovoid body tapering to a point; circular base-knob with rounded edge and small indent on bottom; two ring handles applied over trail decoration, drawn up from shoulder, turned in, and pressed on to neck.
One yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another yellow trail applied to shoulder and wound unevenly round in a spiral and twice around top of body in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern, at which point a turquoise blue trail is added, becoming wider towards bottom; below, a third yellow trail wound horizontally around lower part of body.
Intact; dulling, slight pitting, faint iridescent weathering, and traces of encrustation around handles.
During the fifth century B.C., the colors of Mediterranean Group I vessels expanded from blue or opaque white to include dark green, golden brown, and opaque brick red.
Outsplayed, inward-sloping rim-disk; cylindrical neck; broad sloping shoulder; ovoid body tapering to a point; circular base-knob with rounded edge and small indent on bottom; two ring handles applied over trail decoration, drawn up from shoulder, turned in, and pressed on to neck.
One yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another yellow trail applied to shoulder and wound unevenly round in a spiral and twice around top of body in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern, at which point a turquoise blue trail is added, becoming wider towards bottom; below, a third yellow trail wound horizontally around lower part of body.
Intact; dulling, slight pitting, faint iridescent weathering, and traces of encrustation around handles.
During the fifth century B.C., the colors of Mediterranean Group I vessels expanded from blue or opaque white to include dark green, golden brown, and opaque brick red.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
- Period: Classical
- Date: 5th century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group I
- Dimensions: Other: 2 5/8 × 1 11/16 in. (6.7 × 4.4 cm)
Diam. of rim: 1 in. (2.5 cm)
Diam. of foot: 1/2 in. (1.3 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
- Object Number: 29.100.91
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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late 6th–5th century BCE
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