Glass mosaic perfume bottle
Translucent pale blue, with opaque white trails and faint translucent purple streaks.
Very small everted rim; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; squat, globular body; uneven, flat bottom.
Striped mosaic pattern of applied trails wound round on a blue ground and then tooled in four upward strokes into a festoon pattern around body.
Intact, except for slight chipping to rim; pitting of surface bubbles, dulling, iridescence, and thick, layered weathering.
Very small everted rim; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; squat, globular body; uneven, flat bottom.
Striped mosaic pattern of applied trails wound round on a blue ground and then tooled in four upward strokes into a festoon pattern around body.
Intact, except for slight chipping to rim; pitting of surface bubbles, dulling, iridescence, and thick, layered weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass mosaic perfume bottle
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown, trailed, and tooled
- Dimensions: Height: 2 13/16 in. (7.2 cm)
Diameter: 2 3/16 × 1/2 in. (5.5 × 1.2 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.322
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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