Glass perfume bottle
Translucent pale yellowish green; trail in opaque white.
Outsplayed rim, folded down, round, and in, with flattened top surface and inner lip around mouth; wide cylindrical neck, with horizontal tooled indent around base; piriform body; slightly concave bottom with pontil scar.
Trail applied to center of bottom and wound up in a spiral, extending to rim, marvered and then tooled into a festoon pattern with six vertical strokes.
Intact; large surface bubbles, elongated on neck; pitting, thick creamy weathering, and iridescence.
With pear shaped body, combed threads.
Outsplayed rim, folded down, round, and in, with flattened top surface and inner lip around mouth; wide cylindrical neck, with horizontal tooled indent around base; piriform body; slightly concave bottom with pontil scar.
Trail applied to center of bottom and wound up in a spiral, extending to rim, marvered and then tooled into a festoon pattern with six vertical strokes.
Intact; large surface bubbles, elongated on neck; pitting, thick creamy weathering, and iridescence.
With pear shaped body, combed threads.
Artwork Details
- Title:Glass perfume bottle
- Period:Early Imperial
- Date:early to mid-1st century CE
- Culture:Roman
- Medium:Glass; blown with marvered trails
- Dimensions:H.: 6 3/16 in. (15.7 cm)
- Classification:Glass
- Credit Line:Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935
- Object Number:37.128.7
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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