This small, thin-walled perfume jar (Amphoriskos – small amphora) was ground out of a block of transparent rock crystal and fitted with a gold cap and braided gold chain. A costly vessel, it would have originally belonged to a Roman lady, 1-50 AD.
This small, thin-walled perfume jar (Amphoriskos – small amphora) was ground out of a block of transparent rock crystal and fitted with a gold cap and braided gold chain. A costly vessel, it would have originally belonged to a Roman lady, 1-50 AD.
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Abegg-Stiftung Museum, Riggisberg, Switzerland.
How did they grind and polish the interior?
Dulcis & Gabbanum
Thats crazy impressive. That would have taken hundreds of hours of work.