Glass mosaic perfume bottle

Unknown

1st half of 1st century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent blue, with opaque white trails. Rounded, uneven rim; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; almost horizontal shoulder; squat bulbous body; slightly flattened bottom. Trails applied in a spiral from rim to bottom, marvered into an irregular wavy pattern of lighter and darker bands. Intact; few pinprick bubbles, and one inclusion in side of body; pitting of opaque white on neck and bottom, dulling, and patches of iridescent weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st half of 1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917