Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)
Translucent blue, with same color handles; trails in opaque yellow, with another probably in opaque turquoise blue.
Broad inward-sloping rim-disk with vertical projecting lip to mouth; short cylindrical neck; irregular, almost spherical body; convex, slightly projecting bottom; two strap handles applied in long, flattened pads to top of body, drawn up and outward, then curving in and trailed on to underside of rim-disk.
Yellow trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk; another wide yellow trail applied on upper body and wound down in spiral, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around central section of body, formed by uneven, shallow vertical tooling indents, and ending on underside in two more horizontal lines; a second trail in turquoise blue probably added to middle of body, mingling with the yellow trail.
Intact; dulling, slight pitting, and iridescent milky weathering.
Broad inward-sloping rim-disk with vertical projecting lip to mouth; short cylindrical neck; irregular, almost spherical body; convex, slightly projecting bottom; two strap handles applied in long, flattened pads to top of body, drawn up and outward, then curving in and trailed on to underside of rim-disk.
Yellow trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk; another wide yellow trail applied on upper body and wound down in spiral, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around central section of body, formed by uneven, shallow vertical tooling indents, and ending on underside in two more horizontal lines; a second trail in turquoise blue probably added to middle of body, mingling with the yellow trail.
Intact; dulling, slight pitting, and iridescent milky weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)
- Period: Classical
- Date: late 6th–5th century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group I
- Dimensions: 2 3/8 × 2 1/16 in. (6 × 5.2 cm)
Diam. of rim: 1 in. (2.6 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.299
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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