Glass hydriske (perfume bottle)

Unknown

late 4th–3rd century BCE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white and opaque yellow. Horizontal rim-disk, with rounded edge; cylindrical neck, with slight upward taper; broad almost horizontal rounded shoulder; ovoid body; applied circular pad-base, with uneven bottom; on sides of upper body, two small vertical loop handles; strap handle applied at junction of shoulder and body in a pad and pressed on to underside of rim-disk and top of neck. Unmarvered yellow and white trails attached on shoulder and wound round; both trails tooled in a close-set zigzag pattern with deep vertical ribs over top half of body, then white trail continuing down in a spiral around lower body. Complete, except for most of one loop handle and strap handle; dulling and pitting, with patches of brownish weathering and faint iridescence.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 4th–3rd century BCE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917