Glass perfume bottle

Unknown

late 1st–4th century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Thick-walled perfume bottle. Translucent dark blue-green. Everted rim, folded round and in, with uneven flattened upper surface; cylindrical neck, slightly flaring at top and then joining imperceptibly with slender, conical body; pushed-in bottom with circular pontil mark. Intact; very many bubbles, elongated in neck, and a few glassy impurities; pitting and iridescent weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 1st–4th century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman, possibly Egyptian

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881