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Marbled glass perfume bottle

Marbled glass perfume bottle. Culture: Roman. Dimensions: 2 3/8 × 1 1/4 in. (6.1 × 3.2 cm) Lip diameter: 3/4 in. (2 cm). Date: early to mid-1st century A.D.. Translucent blue and opaque white. Rim folded out, over, and in, and smoothed into sides of flaring mouth; short, cylindrical neck, expanding downwards to join imperceptibly with ovoid body; flattened, slightly concave bottom. Numerous trails applied to gather and marvered into surface, forming an irregular way pattern extending from rim to bottom. Intact; some bubbles; deep pitting, dulling, and patches of iridescence and creamy white weathering. Oval blue and white blown glass marbled perfume bottle.
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Title: Marbled glass perfume bottle
Caption: Marbled glass perfume bottle. Culture: Roman. Dimensions: 2 3/8 × 1 1/4 in. (6.1 × 3.2 cm) Lip diameter: 3/4 in. (2 cm). Date: early to mid-1st century A.D.. Translucent blue and opaque white. Rim folded out, over, and in, and smoothed into sides of flaring mouth; short, cylindrical neck, expanding downwards to join imperceptibly with ovoid body; flattened, slightly concave bottom. Numerous trails applied to gather and marvered into surface, forming an irregular way pattern extending from rim to bottom. Intact; some bubbles; deep pitting, dulling, and patches of iridescence and creamy white weathering. Oval blue and white blown glass marbled perfume bottle.
Technique/material: Glass; blown, trailed, and marvered
Period: Early Imperial
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Location: ROMAN EMPIRE
Credit: Album
Releases: ? Model Release: No - ? Property Release: No
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Image size: 3981 × 3982 px | 45.4 MB
Print size: 33.7 × 33.7 cm | 1567.3 × 1567.7 in (300 dpi)
Keywords: BOTTLES • EARLY IMPERIAL • GLASS • GLASS; BLOWN, TRAILED, AND MARVERED • GREEK AND ROMAN ART • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • PERFUME BOTTLES • ROMAN EMPIRE • VESSELS