Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Translucent yellow green, appearing black; one handle and base-knob in yellow brown, the other handle in yellow green with blue tinge; trails in opaque yellow and opaque white.
Inward-sloping oval rim-disk, with uneven tooling indent underneath; tall cylindrical neck, tapering downwards; sloping shoulder; elongated piriform body; globular but misshapen base-knob; two rod handles applied in pads across shoulder over trail decoration, drawn up and slightly out to above rim, then looped in and down; one attached to neck below rim, the other in a double loop to top of neck and underside of rim-disk.
Yellow trail applied around lip of rim and then wound in a spiral around neck and shoulder to body, then tooled into a festoon pattern with twenty-seven irregular upward strokes on upper third of body; a thick white trail added over bottom of yellow and also tooled into the same festoon pattern around middle of body and continuing in a plain spiral around lower part of body, ending under base-knob.
Intact; pitting of surface bubbles with faint iridescent weathering, and small patches of encrustation.
Inward-sloping oval rim-disk, with uneven tooling indent underneath; tall cylindrical neck, tapering downwards; sloping shoulder; elongated piriform body; globular but misshapen base-knob; two rod handles applied in pads across shoulder over trail decoration, drawn up and slightly out to above rim, then looped in and down; one attached to neck below rim, the other in a double loop to top of neck and underside of rim-disk.
Yellow trail applied around lip of rim and then wound in a spiral around neck and shoulder to body, then tooled into a festoon pattern with twenty-seven irregular upward strokes on upper third of body; a thick white trail added over bottom of yellow and also tooled into the same festoon pattern around middle of body and continuing in a plain spiral around lower part of body, ending under base-knob.
Intact; pitting of surface bubbles with faint iridescent weathering, and small patches of encrustation.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
- Period: Hellenistic
- Date: 2nd–mid-1st century BCE
- Culture: Greek
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group III
- Dimensions: 7 13/16 × 2 7/16 × 1 7/8 in. (19.8 × 6.2 × 4.8 cm)
Diam. of rim: 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm)
Height (without handles): 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.597
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Greek
2nd–mid-1st century BCE
Greek
last quarter of the 6th century BCE
Princeton Group
ca. 540–530 BCE
Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
late 6th–5th century BCE
Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
late 6th–5th century BCE
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