Glass perfume bottle

Unknown

1st–2nd century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent pale blue green. Outsplayed rim, folded in and flattened on top, with rounded inner lip; cylindrical neck with broad tooled indent around base; squat ovoid body; thick flat bottom. A broad wheel-cut horizontal groove around upper body; and faint horizontal lines above point of greatest diameter. Intact; many pinprick bubbles; deep pitting, brilliant iridescence, and patches of thick weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st–2nd century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915