Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 157

Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.
Broad, uneven horizontal rim-disk, with slightly raised edge around mouth; short cylindrical neck; narrow rounded shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, tapering upwards; convex bottom; two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration.
Turquoise blue trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a yellow trail applied on underside of rim-disk and wound down in a spiral to middle of body, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern; a turquoise blue trail is added, mingling with yellow; immediately below zigzag, another yellow trail and another turquoise blue trail are wound horizontally once around body.
Complete, except for weathered chip in rim-disk; body broken and repaired across handles with slight cracks and chips; dulling and milky iridescent weathering.

Glass alabastron (perfume bottle), Glass, Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

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