Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)
Translucent blue, with same color handles; trails in opaque yellow and opaque pale turquoise blue.
Broad inward-sloping rim-disk; cylindrical neck; angular shoulder; almost spherical body; convex, slightly flattened bottom; two vertical ring handles with flattened tails, applied over trail decoration, extend from shoulder to neck.
Yellow trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk; another yellow trail applied unevenly on shoulder and wound spirally down, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around central section of body; turquoise blue trails applied over yellow, also forming part of the zigzag pattern; below this, a yellow trail wound horizontally twice around body.
Intact; white gritty impurities in body; dulling and pitting, and patches of milky weathering and iridescence.
Broad inward-sloping rim-disk; cylindrical neck; angular shoulder; almost spherical body; convex, slightly flattened bottom; two vertical ring handles with flattened tails, applied over trail decoration, extend from shoulder to neck.
Yellow trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk; another yellow trail applied unevenly on shoulder and wound spirally down, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around central section of body; turquoise blue trails applied over yellow, also forming part of the zigzag pattern; below this, a yellow trail wound horizontally twice around body.
Intact; white gritty impurities in body; dulling and pitting, and patches of milky weathering and iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)
- Period: Classical
- Date: late 6th–5th century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group I
- Dimensions: H.: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Elias Kempner, 1934
- Object Number: 34.132.22
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Signed by Nearchos as potter
ca. 570 BCE
mid-4th–early 3rd century BCE
late 6th–5th century BCE
4th–3rd century BCE
4th–3rd century BCE
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