Glass perfume bottle

Unknown

1st century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent pale blue green. Slanting rim, folded out, round, and in, and flattened on upper surface; cylindrical neck with faint horizontal tooling indent around base; piriform body, curving in to flat bottom. Intact, apart from small weathered chip in rim; pinprick and larger bubbles; deep pitting, brilliant iridescence, and thick creamy enamel-like weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915