Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

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Translucent dark cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white.
Inward-sloping rim-disk; tall, slanting, cylindrical neck; short, rounded shoulder; straight-sided body with upward taper; convex bottom; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles with long knobbed tails, applied over trails.
One trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another applied on neck below rim, tooled into a close-set feather pattern from top of shoulder to just above bottom with long vertical tooling indents; below this, trail ends in a spiral twist around bottom.
Intact, except for one chip in rim; dulling, deep pitting, and weathering.

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

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