Glass gold-band mosaic alabastron (perfume bottle)
Unknown Artist
1st century BCE
Medium
Glass and gold leaf
Dimensions
7 1/8 × 7/8 in. (18.1 × 2.2 cm) Stopper: 1 7/16 × 9/16 in. (3.6 × 1.5 cm) Diam. of rim: 1 3/16 in. (3 cm) Length (length without stopper): 5 7/8 in. (15 cm)
Classification
Glass
Culture & Period
Greek · Late Hellenistic
Department
Greek and Roman Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Accession Number
17.194.286a, b