Opaque blue-green glass bottle with ovoid rounded base and tall, wide-lipped neck slightly off-center
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A small opaque, hand-blown glass bottle is made with blue-green glass that shows much brownish-gold staining or dirt accretions. The base is flat, and the body has an organic, imperfect, rounded shape that is ovoid like an egg, and slightly wider at the bottom. It has a long, thin cylindrical neck that is almost as tall as the body and is slightly off-center. The top of the neck gently flares out to a wider ring mouth with a circular, rounded lip.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1895.210
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/56813

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Blue-green glass
Technique
Free-blown glass
Dimensions
8.1 x 6.2 cm (3 3/16 x 2 7/16 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
1895.210
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Bottle; flat base, long neck, ring mouth. Intact; minimal dirt accretions on interior and exterior.

Classification: Isings 28A

Subjects and Contexts

  • Roman Domestic Art

Verification Level

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