Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
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Translucent green, appearing black; one handle and base-knob in yellow brown, the other handle in yellow green; trail in opaque white.
Inward-sloping rim-disk, with tooling indent underneath; tall, slightly concave, cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; elongated piriform body; large applied base-knob; two rod handles applied in pads across shoulder, drawn up and slightly out to above rim, then looped in and down, and attached to neck below rim in a double fold over trail decoration.
Single white trail applied around lip of rim and then wound in a spiral around neck and shoulder to body, then tooled into a festoon pattern with twenty-eight upward strokes, continuing in a plain spiral around lower part of body, ending under base-knob.
Intact, except for part of knob; areas of deep pitting and dulling, with brilliant iridescence and creamy brown weathering.
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