Glass perfume bottle
Translucent blue, with opaque white trails.
Rounded and partially folded rim; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; squat, globular body; uneven, flat bottom.
Striped mosaic pattern of applied triple trail wound round in a spiral on a blue ground and then tooled in four upward strokes into a festoon pattern around upper body and neck.
Complete, but broken and repaired around rim; some bubbles; dulling, iridescence, and patches of brownish weathering.
Rounded and partially folded rim; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; squat, globular body; uneven, flat bottom.
Striped mosaic pattern of applied triple trail wound round in a spiral on a blue ground and then tooled in four upward strokes into a festoon pattern around upper body and neck.
Complete, but broken and repaired around rim; some bubbles; dulling, iridescence, and patches of brownish weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown, trailed, and tooled
- Dimensions: Height: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)
Diameter: 2 1/8 × 15/16 in. (5.4 × 2.3 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.323
- 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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