The bottle, with a dark purple bottom section, lightening toward the middle and darkening again at the shoulders and mouth, was termed "exceptional" by auctioneer and American glass expert Norman Heckler.
The three-day event featured a vast offering of rare lamps, as well as French and English cameo glass, Tiffany, cut glass, Victorian art glass and many examples by Lalique and Steuben.
Objects in the exhibition, on view in New Orleans, were selected to illuminate the Pharaonic concepts of the afterlife, sustenance and renewal, and the relationship with the divine.
At Christie's, prints and multiples totaled nearly $5 million with 90 percent sold by dollar. The sale added one more result to a year that had already been flamboyant on the print front.
The Aldrich sold more than 300 objects representing the remainder of its collection in order to further the Ridgefield, Conn.-based museum's mission of exhibiting the work of living artists.