Glass perfume bottle
Translucent light blue-green.
Slightly tubular rim folded out, round, and in, forming uneven inner lip; cylindrical neck, with horizontal tooling indent at base; conical body with slightly convex-curving side, turned in sharply to flat bottom.
Complete but cracks in rim and neck, and on one side of bottom; many pinprick and larger bubbles, elongated in neck; dulling, patches of creamy weathering, and iridescence on exterior, and soil encrustation and iridescent weathering on most of interior.
Slightly tubular rim folded out, round, and in, forming uneven inner lip; cylindrical neck, with horizontal tooling indent at base; conical body with slightly convex-curving side, turned in sharply to flat bottom.
Complete but cracks in rim and neck, and on one side of bottom; many pinprick and larger bubbles, elongated in neck; dulling, patches of creamy weathering, and iridescence on exterior, and soil encrustation and iridescent weathering on most of interior.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)
Diameter: 1 7/16 × 5/8 in. (3.7 × 1.6 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
- Object Number: 74.51.6717
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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