Glass unguentarium (perfume bottle)
Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white and opaque yellow.
Uneven horizontal rim-disk, with rounded edge; tall cylindrical neck; broad sloping shoulder; ovoid body; applied tall outsplayed foot, with rounded edge and deep tooled indent in center of flat bottom; below shoulder, two flattened loop handles projecting at an upward angle from body, applied over trail pattern.
A white trail attached to neck and wound down in a spiral and across shoulder, tooled from top of body in a close-set zigzag pattern with deep vertical ribs, then continuing down in a spiral and ending in two horizontal lines around lower body; a yellow trail applied over white halfway down zigzag pattern and continuing immediately below in four close-set horizontal lines.
Complete, except for large chip in rim-disk and projecting loop of one handle; slight dulling and pitting, but very little weathering.
Uneven horizontal rim-disk, with rounded edge; tall cylindrical neck; broad sloping shoulder; ovoid body; applied tall outsplayed foot, with rounded edge and deep tooled indent in center of flat bottom; below shoulder, two flattened loop handles projecting at an upward angle from body, applied over trail pattern.
A white trail attached to neck and wound down in a spiral and across shoulder, tooled from top of body in a close-set zigzag pattern with deep vertical ribs, then continuing down in a spiral and ending in two horizontal lines around lower body; a yellow trail applied over white halfway down zigzag pattern and continuing immediately below in four close-set horizontal lines.
Complete, except for large chip in rim-disk and projecting loop of one handle; slight dulling and pitting, but very little weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass unguentarium (perfume bottle)
- Period: Hellenistic
- Date: 3rd century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group II
- Dimensions: 4 1/4 × 2 3/8 × 2 1/16 in. (10.8 × 6 × 5.3 cm)
Diam. of rim: 7/8 in. (2.3 cm)
Diam. of foot: 1 1/16 in. (2.6 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
- Object Number: 1972.118.171
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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