Glass perfume bottle
Unknown
4th century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art
Small perfume bottle Translucent cobalt blue. Rim folded out, over, and in, and flattened into mouth; cylindrical neck, tooled in around base; steeply sloping shoulder; roughly squared body with indented sides; pushed-in bottom with traces of large round pontil mark. Intact; dulling, slight pitting, and faint iridescence.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 4th century CE
- Medium
- Glass
- Culture
- Roman
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
