Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Translucent honey brown with same color handles and base-knob; trails in opaque white and opaque yellow.
Horizontal rim with rounded edge and radiating tooling marks on top surface; tall slender cylindrical neck; broad sloping shoulder, slightly concave below handles; ovoid body; coiled base-knob applied to pointed bottom; two vertical handles applied to shoulder, drawn up in a curve, then turned in and down, and attached to top of neck and underside of rim.
White trail applied on neck, wound spirally around and drawn down across shoulder to body; another yellow trail applied to top of body in a band over the white and tooled into a zigzag pattern with close-set vertical indents around top of body; the white trail continues as a zigzag band below, and then as a horizontal line around center of body.
Intact; dulling, pitting, and faint iridescence.
Horizontal rim with rounded edge and radiating tooling marks on top surface; tall slender cylindrical neck; broad sloping shoulder, slightly concave below handles; ovoid body; coiled base-knob applied to pointed bottom; two vertical handles applied to shoulder, drawn up in a curve, then turned in and down, and attached to top of neck and underside of rim.
White trail applied on neck, wound spirally around and drawn down across shoulder to body; another yellow trail applied to top of body in a band over the white and tooled into a zigzag pattern with close-set vertical indents around top of body; the white trail continues as a zigzag band below, and then as a horizontal line around center of body.
Intact; dulling, pitting, and faint iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
- Period: Late Classical or Hellenistic
- Date: 3rd century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group II
- Dimensions: Height: 3 1/8 × 1 1/2 × 1 5/8 in. (8 × 3.8 × 4.1 cm)
Diam. of rim: 13/16 in. (2 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.776
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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