Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)
Translucent cobalt blue, with same color handles; trails in opaque turquoise blue and opaque yellow.
Broad inward-sloping oval rim-disk with radiating tooling marks on upper surface; cylindrical neck; almost horizontal shoulder; almost spherical body; convex, slightly pointed bottom; two ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration, extend from shoulder to neck .
A turquoise blue trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk; a broad yellow trail applied on upper body and wound down in spiral, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around central section of body, formed by uneven vertical tooling indents; a second trail in turquoise blue added to zigzag, mingling with the yellow trail; below, a yellow trail and two turquoise blue trails wound horizontally once round body.
Intact; dulling, pitting, and whitish iridescent weathering.
Blue pomiform aryballos with green, yellow, and white lines and zigzags.
Broad inward-sloping oval rim-disk with radiating tooling marks on upper surface; cylindrical neck; almost horizontal shoulder; almost spherical body; convex, slightly pointed bottom; two ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration, extend from shoulder to neck .
A turquoise blue trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk; a broad yellow trail applied on upper body and wound down in spiral, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around central section of body, formed by uneven vertical tooling indents; a second trail in turquoise blue added to zigzag, mingling with the yellow trail; below, a yellow trail and two turquoise blue trails wound horizontally once round body.
Intact; dulling, pitting, and whitish iridescent weathering.
Blue pomiform aryballos with green, yellow, and white lines and zigzags.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)
- Period: Classical
- Date: late 6th–5th century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group I
- Dimensions: H.: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.769
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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