Glass amphoriskos (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.
Uneven inward-sloping rim-disk; cylindrical neck with spiral tooling marks, tapering downwards; broad sloping shoulder; top-shaped body; circular base-knob with indent on uneven bottom; two strap handles applied to top of shoulder, drawn up, and pressed onto neck.
Turquoise blue trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a yellow trail applied in an irregular spiral around shoulder and top of body; a second thicker yellow trail tooled into an uneven zigzag pattern around middle of body, where a turquoise blue trail is added, mingling with the yellow, forming shallow vertical ridges in sides; below, a yellow and a turquoise blue trail wound horizontally once around lower body; a turquoise blue trail wound carelessly around base-knob.
Intact, except for weathered chip in outer edge of rim-disk; dulling and pitting, with faint iridescent weathering.

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

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