Glass perfume bottle

Unknown

1st century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent cobalt blue. Rim folded out, down, round, and in, forming vertical lip; short cylindrical neck, with tooling marks around base; conical shoulder with horizontal tooled indent around base; squat bulbous body; concave bottom. Body intact, but part of rim missing, with weathered edges, and crack in side of body; some bubbles and blowing striations; dulling, pitting, and iridescence on exterior, with one patch of thick milky weathering below rim, soil encrustation and thick weathering on interior of neck.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891