1895.193: Unguentarium (cosmetic bottle)
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1895.193
- Title
- Unguentarium (cosmetic bottle)
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1st-2nd century CE
- Period
- Roman period
- Culture
- Roman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/293119
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Blue-green glass
- Technique
- Free-blown glass
- Dimensions
- H. 12.3 x Neck diam. 2 x W. 6.9 cm (4 13/16 x 13/16 x 2 11/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Charles Eliot Norton and Richard Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1895), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1895.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Professor C.E. Norton and Richard Norton
- Accession Year
- 1895
- Object Number
- 1895.193
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
-
Bottle; flat base, oblate body, long neck cut off at mouth, chip of neck missing. Opaque white-light brown accretions with patches of iridescence. Straw in body of vessel.
Classification: Isings form 28B
Subjects and Contexts
- Roman Domestic Art
Verification Level
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