Glass unguentarium (perfume bottle)

Unknown

3rd century BCE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent cobalt blue, with opaque turquoise blue handles, rim-disk, and pad-base; trails in opaque white and yellow. Turquoise blue trail applied as outsplayed rim-disk around rounded top of neck; tall, slender neck, tapering slightly downward; steeply sloping shoulder; elongated piriform body, tapering downward to applied; small pad-base with uneven flat bottom; two small loop handles applied to edge of shoulder and top of body with everted upward angle. White and yellow trails attached at top of neck and wound down as alternate spiral lines, tooled into a festoon pattern round upper half of body, with twelve upward tooling strokes. Complete except for part of rim-disk and weathered chip in pad-base; one large pitted hole on edge of shoulder; some dulling and pitting, especially of turquoise blue additions, and slight weathering of trail decoration.

Artist

Unknown

Date

3rd century BCE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean, possibly Alexandrian

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917