Glass perfume bottle

Unknown

2nd–3rd century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Candlestick unguentarium. Uncertain color (colorless ?). Everted rim, with rounded outer lip; slender, tall, slightly concave neck; horizontal shoulder; sides of body expanding downwards; pushed-in bottom with circular pontil scar. Broken at top with two-thirds of rim missing, but otherwise complete; bubbles and blowing striations; creamy brown weathering and brilliant iridescence, inside of neck encrusted and blocked with soil.

Artist

Unknown

Date

2nd–3rd century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881