Glass perfume bottle

Unknown

ca. 8th–9th century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent blue. Flaring, alien rim with horizontal tooled indent below; tall neck, expanding downwards; sloping shoulder with irregular indent on one side; globular body; thick pad base with off-center kick in bottom. Decorated with nineteen fine vertical ribs, extending from edge of base to top of neck. Body and neck complete, but broken around top with most of rim missing; pinprick bubbles and a small group of white, glassy inclusions in one side of body; dulling, some pitting, and iridescent weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 8th–9th century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Islamic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915