Roman glass perfume bottle

Eastern Mediterranean or Italy
Early to mid 1st century A. D.

Ovoid body with slightly concave bottom; tubular neck with tooled constriction at bottom; spreading rim with flattened fold on top. Assembled from lengths of cane and blown. Marbled mosaic pattern formed from large, irregularly shaped sections of a single cane in a golden- brown ground with opaque white, different shades of opaque blue and opaque white. Intact, short stabilized crack on rim/neck.
Thin film of iridescence.
Height 3.3″(8.5 cm).

For similar published archaeological examples see:
-The Toledo Museum of Art. Early Ancient Glass. Hudson Hill Press, New York, 1989, cat. 615;
-Kunina N. Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection. ARS Publishers, LTD, St. Petersburg, 1997, cat. #102;
-Calvi, M.C. I Vetri Romani del Museo di Aquileia, 1968, pl.5;