Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.
Inward-sloping rim-disk, with radiating tooling marks on upper surface; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards with fine tooling line around base; sloping shoulder; top-shaped body; two vertical strap handles applied to shoulder, drawn up and in, and pressed onto underside of rim-disk and top of neck.
A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another thick yellow trail applied on edge of shoulder, tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern on upper half of body, where a turquoise blue trail is added, mingling with the yellow, forming vertical ridges in sides; below, a yellow and a turquoise blue trail wound horizontally around body.
Broken with part of lower body and all of base-knob missing, and one small weathered chip in rim-disk; slight pitting and some encrustation around handles.
This broken example enables us to see the rough and pitted interior surface of the bottle.
Inward-sloping rim-disk, with radiating tooling marks on upper surface; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards with fine tooling line around base; sloping shoulder; top-shaped body; two vertical strap handles applied to shoulder, drawn up and in, and pressed onto underside of rim-disk and top of neck.
A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another thick yellow trail applied on edge of shoulder, tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern on upper half of body, where a turquoise blue trail is added, mingling with the yellow, forming vertical ridges in sides; below, a yellow and a turquoise blue trail wound horizontally around body.
Broken with part of lower body and all of base-knob missing, and one small weathered chip in rim-disk; slight pitting and some encrustation around handles.
This broken example enables us to see the rough and pitted interior surface of the bottle.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
- Period: Classical
- Date: late 6th–5th century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group I
- Dimensions: Overall: 2 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. (7 x 3.8 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.762
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Greek
last quarter of the 6th century BCE
Princeton Group
ca. 540–530 BCE
Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
late 6th–5th century BCE
Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
late 6th–5th century BCE
Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
late 6th–5th century BCE
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