Perfume Bottle
Perfume Bottle
Place of OriginEgypt or Syria
Date13th century
DimensionsH: 3 3/16 in. (8.1 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/16 in. (3.1 cm); Body Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm)
MediumBlown and tooled glass, with applied marvered threads
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.2371
Not on View
DescriptionPurple ground; applied white and green decoration; wide mouth; wide conical neck; upper half of neck with thin green spiral thread; body widens toward bottom, curves in sharply to foot; circular foot; decorated with opaque white trailed threads in festoon pattern; foot is uneven, making piece appear lopsided.
13th century
late 13th century
13th century
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
12th-13th century
13th century
18th Dynasty, about 1400-1350 BCE
New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, about 1412-1350 BCE
13th century
13th century
13th century
3rd through 2nd century BCE
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