Glass perfume bottle with opaque white trail
Translucent cobalt blue; trail in opaque white.
Outsplayed, rounded, and slightly thickened rim; tall neck, joining imperceptibly with slender piriform body, drawn out at base into solid knob.
Trail applied on knob base, wound round and up in a spiral 12 times across body, ending at base of neck.
Broken and repaired with one large gap in rim; pinprick bubbles; slight brownish weathering.
Blue spindle shaped vase with very long neck and pointed bottom; wound with white glass threads.
Outsplayed, rounded, and slightly thickened rim; tall neck, joining imperceptibly with slender piriform body, drawn out at base into solid knob.
Trail applied on knob base, wound round and up in a spiral 12 times across body, ending at base of neck.
Broken and repaired with one large gap in rim; pinprick bubbles; slight brownish weathering.
Blue spindle shaped vase with very long neck and pointed bottom; wound with white glass threads.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass perfume bottle with opaque white trail
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown and trailed
- Dimensions: H.: 5 7/8 in. (15 cm); Diam.: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.307
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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