Glass perfume bottle
Unknown Artist
Colorless with faint yellowish tinge.
Uneven rim folded out, over, and in; cylindrical neck with tooling indent around base; conical body, rounded at base; flattened but slanting bottom.
Traces of horizontal indent around middle of body.
Intact; pinprick bubbles; pitting, dulling, and faint iridescence on exterior, and creamy weathering with iridescence on interior of neck.
Credit: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
1st-2nd century A.D.
Glass; blown
5.9cm
74.51.5790
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Permanent collection