Glass perfume bottle

Unknown

1st century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Small perfume bottle Colorless with pale blue green tinge. Uneven, lop-sided rim, folded out, over, and in; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly downward and tooled in around base; piriform body; round bottom, flattened at center. Intact, but crack in rim and neck; many pinprick and small bubbles; dulling and faint iridescence, with patch of thick, creamy, enamel-like weathering on rim and top of neck.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76