Glass perfume bottle
Translucent deep emerald green.
Everted rim, folded over and in, with beveled outer lip; tall cylindrical neck, with tooled horizontal indent around base; conical body with rounded bottom edge; bottom slightly pushed-in.
Intact; many pinprick bubbles; deep pitting, weathering, and brilliant iridescence.
Thick-walled, heavy vessel.
Everted rim, folded over and in, with beveled outer lip; tall cylindrical neck, with tooled horizontal indent around base; conical body with rounded bottom edge; bottom slightly pushed-in.
Intact; many pinprick bubbles; deep pitting, weathering, and brilliant iridescence.
Thick-walled, heavy vessel.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle
- Period: Early to Mid Imperial
- Date: late 1st–2nd century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: H.: 5 in. (12.7 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915
- Object Number: 15.43.150
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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