Glass mosaic perfume bottle

Unknown

1st century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent pale blue, with opaque white trails and faint translucent purple streaks. Very small everted rim; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; squat, globular body; uneven, flat bottom. Striped mosaic pattern of applied trails wound round on a blue ground and then tooled in four upward strokes into a festoon pattern around body. Intact, except for slight chipping to rim; pitting of surface bubbles, dulling, iridescence, and thick, layered weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881