Glass perfume bottle

Unknown

late 1st–3rd century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Colorless with blue-green tinge. Rim folded out, down, round, and in, with flattened upper surface and lip inside mouth; tall cylindrical neck expanding downward, with deep horizontal tooling indent around base; squat globular body; flat bottom but slightly pushed-in at center. Complete, except for one hole in neck, repaired and filled; many pinprick bubbles; heavily pitted, brilliant iridescence, and patches of thick enamel-like weathering, and some soil encrustation under rim.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 1st–3rd century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Miss Ida H. Ogilvie, 1951