Mosaic Glass Unguentarium in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2010

Mosaic Glass Unguentarium (perfume bottle)
Greek, Eastern Mediterranean, probably cast and blown
1st century BC- early 1st century AD

Accession # 17.194.282

This bottle marks a transitional stage in in the production of closed forms in glass- from the core-formed and cast vessels of the Hellenistic world to the ubiquitous blown glass of the Roman Empire.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.