Glass lentoid aryballos (perfume bottle)
Translucent cobalt blue, with handles, coils, and feet in same color; trails in opaque yellow, opaque white, and opaque turquoise blue.
Broad rim-disk, sloping inward, made as a spiral coil around top of neck; cylindrical neck, tapering downward; broad, almost horizontal shoulder with rounded outer edge; flattened globular body, with convex sides; shallow convex bottom; two rolled cylindrical feet on either side of bottom; two vertical ring handles attached to shoulder; two coils running down sides between handles and feet.
An unmarvered fine yellow trail attached at the edge of rim-disk; another similar yellow trail wound spirally five times round neck; on body, bands of yellow, white, and turquoise blue trails tooled into a feather pattern in thirteen vertical patterns with alternating upward and downward strokes; on one side applied blob of blue glass decorated with a yellow circle smoothed into top of body; coils decorated with a double spiralling white trail.
Body intact, but one of feet and most of one coil missing; side covered with creamy brown weathering, with iridescence, faint weathering and some pitting elsewhere.
Among the rarer shapes of Mediterranean Group II vessels are the tall, slender oinochoe (pitcher) with a trefoil spout and the lentoid aryballos with twisted glass canes running between the ring handles.
Broad rim-disk, sloping inward, made as a spiral coil around top of neck; cylindrical neck, tapering downward; broad, almost horizontal shoulder with rounded outer edge; flattened globular body, with convex sides; shallow convex bottom; two rolled cylindrical feet on either side of bottom; two vertical ring handles attached to shoulder; two coils running down sides between handles and feet.
An unmarvered fine yellow trail attached at the edge of rim-disk; another similar yellow trail wound spirally five times round neck; on body, bands of yellow, white, and turquoise blue trails tooled into a feather pattern in thirteen vertical patterns with alternating upward and downward strokes; on one side applied blob of blue glass decorated with a yellow circle smoothed into top of body; coils decorated with a double spiralling white trail.
Body intact, but one of feet and most of one coil missing; side covered with creamy brown weathering, with iridescence, faint weathering and some pitting elsewhere.
Among the rarer shapes of Mediterranean Group II vessels are the tall, slender oinochoe (pitcher) with a trefoil spout and the lentoid aryballos with twisted glass canes running between the ring handles.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass lentoid aryballos (perfume bottle)
- Period: Hellenistic
- Date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE
- Culture: Eastern Mediterranean or Italian
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group II
- Dimensions: 3 1/2 × 3 1/16 × 2 3/16 in. (8.9 × 7.8 × 5.5 cm)
Diam. of rim: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1348
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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