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Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

late 6th–5th century BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171
Translucent light blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.
Uneven, inward-sloping rim-disk; slanting cylindrical neck; rounded shoulder; ovoid body; circular base-knob with flat bottom; two vertical ring handles applied to shoulder, drawn up, and pressed onto neck.
A yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a thick yellow trail applied in a spiral around shoulder and top of body, then tooled into an uneven close-set zigzag pattern on central part of body, where a turquoise blue trail is added, mingling with the yellow; below, a third, fine yellow trail wound horizontally once around body.
Intact; bubbles and gritty white impurities; dulling, pitting, and faint iridescent weathering.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
  • Period: Classical
  • Date: late 6th–5th century BCE
  • Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
  • Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group I
  • Dimensions: H.: 3 in. (7.6 cm)
  • Classification: Glass
  • Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
  • Object Number: 81.10.341
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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