Glass perfume bottle

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent greenish yellow.
Uneven rim folded out, round, and in; cylindrical neck, slightly tooled in around base; elongated piriform body, tapering to solid, drawn-out knob base with tooling indent in one side.
Intact; pinprick bubbles; dulling, deep pitting and weathering, leaving a brilliant iridescent surface on exterior.

Colorless oval blown glass vase with pointed base and slender neck.

Glass perfume bottle, Glass, Roman

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