Glass perfume bottle

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

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.

Glass perfume bottle, Glass, Roman

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