The early Imperial blown glass bottle of globular form with a long tapered tubular neck and flared rim. With a pearlescent patina. Condition Intact. There is minor surface wear and...
Such vessels would have been used for expensive perfumed oils and the narrow neck served to protect the previous liquid from the air, and from spilling. For the form see S. B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, 1980, 27, no. 71.