Glass perfume bottle

Unknown

early 1st century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent cobalt blue; trail in uncertain color, possibly opaque white. Outsplayed, rounded rim; cylindrical neck; broad, piriform body; flat bottom. Single trail, applied to edge of bottom, wound round body in a spiral fifteen times as a thick marvered trail at bottom, then becoming a fine trail in relief on body, ending below neck. Intact, but small cracks in bottom; some bubbles; dulling, limy brown weathering, and faint iridescence.

Artist

Unknown

Date

early 1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881