Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Translucent cobalt blue; handles and base-knob in translucent colorless with pale green tinge, but one handle with additional trail in dark olive green, appearing black; trails in opaque white and opaque yellow .
Uneven rim-disk, with rounded edge and sloping inward; tall, slender cylindrical neck, with tooling indents around top; narrow sloping shoulder; elongated, narrow ovoid body; pointed bottom with applied base-knob; two vertical handles applied with separate pads on shoulder, and pressed on to upper neck.
Yellow trail applied to edge of rim-disk and wound spirally down neck and across shoulder, a second white applied over yellow at top of body, both tooled into a feather pattern on body in eleven irregular panels of alternating upward and downward strokes, then fine white trail continuing on lower body in a spiral almost two turns but thicker yellow trail continuing and ending on pointed bottom; one irregular patch of yellow over decoration on upper body.
Body complete, but most of handles missing; dulling, pitting, faint iridescence, and small patches of milky white weathering.
Uneven rim-disk, with rounded edge and sloping inward; tall, slender cylindrical neck, with tooling indents around top; narrow sloping shoulder; elongated, narrow ovoid body; pointed bottom with applied base-knob; two vertical handles applied with separate pads on shoulder, and pressed on to upper neck.
Yellow trail applied to edge of rim-disk and wound spirally down neck and across shoulder, a second white applied over yellow at top of body, both tooled into a feather pattern on body in eleven irregular panels of alternating upward and downward strokes, then fine white trail continuing on lower body in a spiral almost two turns but thicker yellow trail continuing and ending on pointed bottom; one irregular patch of yellow over decoration on upper body.
Body complete, but most of handles missing; dulling, pitting, faint iridescence, and small patches of milky white weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
- Period: Hellenistic
- Date: 2nd to mid-1st century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group III
- Dimensions: H.: 7 1/16 in. (17.9 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
- Object Number: 30.115.41
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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ca. 540–530 BCE
Greek
last quarter of the 6th century BCE
Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
late 6th–5th century BCE
Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
late 6th–5th century BCE
Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
late 6th–5th century BCE
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