Glass perfume bottle
Thick, heavy glass.
Translucent deep blue green.
Rim folded out, round and in, with beveled upper lip; tall, slender neck, expanding downward, with broad tooled indent around base; slender piriform body, curving at base; small, thick bottom, with irregular indentations and one projecting trail.
Largely complete, but slight losses around rim; many bubbles and blowing striations; very heavy pitting and weathering, with brilliant iridescence. Soil encrustation blocking interior of neck.
Translucent deep blue green.
Rim folded out, round and in, with beveled upper lip; tall, slender neck, expanding downward, with broad tooled indent around base; slender piriform body, curving at base; small, thick bottom, with irregular indentations and one projecting trail.
Largely complete, but slight losses around rim; many bubbles and blowing striations; very heavy pitting and weathering, with brilliant iridescence. Soil encrustation blocking interior of neck.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle
- Period: Imperial
- Date: late 1st–3rd century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: H.: 5 11/16 in. (14.5 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
- Object Number: 30.115.50
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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