Glass perfume bottle

Unknown

1st century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Colorless with pale blue green tinge. Rim folded out, over, and in; slightly funnel-shaped, cylindrical neck, with faint tooling marks around base; piriform body; flat bottom. Two roughly horizontal ridges (marvered trails?) around upper body. Broken and repaired; half of rim missing; three holes in body and bottom, and numerous cracks; many pinprick and small bubbles; dulling and iridescent weathering; patches of thick, enamel-like weathering remaining on rim and top of neck. Very thin, extremely weathered glass.

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