Glass perfume bottle

Unknown

1st century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Small bottle. Translucent smoky grey. Slanting rim, folded out, over, and in, with raised inner lip on one side; cylindrical neck, tapering downwards, tooled in horizontally at base; tall shoulder with convex side, marked off at base by another horizontal tooled indent; squat bulbous body, then sloping in sharply to small, flat bottom. Complete, but badly cracked on body and across bottom; few bubbles and blowing striations; small patches of dulling and weathering on exterior, some soil encrustation and whitish weathering on interior.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881