Glass perfume bottle

Roman

Not on view

Thick, heavy glass.

Translucent green with a blue tinge; trails in opaque white.

Rim folded out, down, round, and in, forming a broad, beveled upper lip; tall cylindrical neck with irregular tooling marks around base; conical body; concave bottom.

Marvered trails forming a tight spiral pattern on bottom and lower half of body, then in a stretched wavy spiral, extending up neck to rim.

Intact; very many bubbles, some elongated in neck, and a few impurities; dulling, pitting of surface bubbles, and faint iridescence, with soil encrustation and weathering on interior.

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