Glass perfume bottle
Translucent smoky grey.
Slanting rim, folded out, over, and in, with raised inner lip on one side; cylindrical neck, tapering downwards, tooled in horizontally at base; tall shoulder with convex side, marked off at base by another horizontal tooled indent; squat bulbous body, then sloping in sharply to small, flat bottom.
Complete, but badly cracked on body and across bottom; few bubbles and blowing striations; small patches of dulling and weathering on exterior, some soil encrustation and whitish weathering on interior.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: H.: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.266
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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