Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

Unknown

late 6th–5th century BCE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Opaque white, with handles and base-knob in same color; trails in translucent purple. Broad, inward-sloping rim-disk; cylindrical neck tapering upward; broad, sloping shoulder; elongated ovoid body; circular base-knob with rounded edge; two vertical strap handles drawn up from shoulder, turned in, and pressed on to underside of rim-disk. One thick, rounded trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another trail applied on shoulder and wound round spirally, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into a zigzag pattern with rounded tops and close-set vertical tooling indents, ending in irregular, thick line around bottom; another thick trail applied to knob-base. Complete, except for part of rim-disk and two-thirds of knob-base; dulling, pitting, and iridescent creamy weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 6th–5th century BCE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

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