Glass perfume bottle

Unknown

1st century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent light blue-green. Slightly tubular rim folded out, round, and in, forming uneven inner lip; cylindrical neck, with horizontal tooling indent at base; conical body with slightly convex-curving side, turned in sharply to flat bottom. Complete but cracks in rim and neck, and on one side of bottom; many pinprick and larger bubbles, elongated in neck; dulling, patches of creamy weathering, and iridescence on exterior, and soil encrustation and iridescent weathering on most of interior.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76