Glass perfume bottle
Unknown Artist
Translucent greenish yellow.
Uneven rim folded out, round, and in; cylindrical neck, slightly tooled in around base; elongated piriform body, tapering to solid, drawn-out knob base with tooling indent in one side.
Intact; pinprick bubbles; dulling, deep pitting and weathering, leaving a brilliant iridescent surface on exterior.
Colorless oval blown glass vase with pointed base and slender neck.
Credit: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
1st century A.D.
Glass; blown
11.5 x 11.5cm
74.51.27
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
Where you'll find this
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Permanent collection