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Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)

5th century BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171
Opaque dark purple, appearing black, with lighter red brown streaks, with same color handles; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.

Inward-sloping rim-disk with rough protruding edge to mouth; short concave neck; broad sloping shoulder; almost spherical body; convex, slightly uneven bottom; two ring handles with knobbed tails extend from shoulder to neck and underside of rim-disk.
A yellow trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk, with top of neck folded over part of trail; yellow and turquoise blue trails applied in a band around the upper half of body and tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern, formed by uneven, shallow vertical tooling indents; below this, two separate yellow and turquoise blue trails added vertically to lower body and wound once round bottom in an irregular swirl; one raised yellow blob on edge of shoulder on one side.

Intact, except for one small chip in rim-disk; dulling, pitting, and heavily weathered with patches of milky white iridescence.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)
  • Period: Classical
  • Date: 5th century BCE
  • Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
  • Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group I
  • Dimensions: 2 1/4 × 2 1/16 in. (5.7 × 5.2 cm)
    Diam. of rim: 1 in. (2.6 cm)
  • Classification: Glass
  • Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
  • Object Number: 91.1.1336
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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