Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Not on view
Translucent blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque white.
Broad rim-disk, uneven and sloping inward with radiating tooling marks on upper and lower surfaces, and jagged, projecting inner lip to neck; cylindrical neck; straight-sided fusiform body expanding downward, then tapering in to pointed bottom; two elongated horizontal lug handles applied at top of body over trails; marvered blob of blue applied over trails on one side at point of greatest diameter.
Trails attached near bottom, drawn up in a spiral to point of carination, tooled into a close-set feather pattern around side, arranged in seven panels of alternating upward and downward strokes, some slanting and extending onto neck, forming a partial festoon pattern, wound round again in spiral to top of body and on to edge of rim, with white sometimes overlapping yellow.
Intact; some bubbles; very slight dulling, pitting, and iridescent weathering.
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