Glass perfume bottle
Translucent dark blue green.
Rim folded out, over, and in, with beveled upper surface and sharp outer lip; tall cylindrical neck with shallow tooling indent at base; conical body with rounded edge at base; slightly concave bottom.
Broken and repaired; one weathered hole in neck, another in body, and numerous cracks and a hole in body near base; many bubbles and blowing striations; deep pitting, creamy weathering, and brilliant iridescence.
Rim folded out, over, and in, with beveled upper surface and sharp outer lip; tall cylindrical neck with shallow tooling indent at base; conical body with rounded edge at base; slightly concave bottom.
Broken and repaired; one weathered hole in neck, another in body, and numerous cracks and a hole in body near base; many bubbles and blowing striations; deep pitting, creamy weathering, and brilliant iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle
- Period: Mid Imperial
- Date: 2nd–3rd century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: H.: 5 in. (12.7 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1271
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Manufactory Vienna
Factory director Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier period
ca. 1730
Roman
2nd–3rd century CE
Roman
1st half of 1st century CE
Roman
1st half of 1st century CE
Roman
1st half of 1st century CE
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