Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 157

Translucent blue, with same color handles; trails in opaque yellow, probably with another in opaque turquoise blue.

Broad inward-sloping rim-disk with radiating tooling marks on underside; short cylindrical neck; angular shoulder; almost spherical body; convex, slightly pointed bottom with small indent at center; two ring handles with knobbed tails extend from shoulder to neck.
A yellow trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk; another broad yellow trail applied on upper body and wound down in spiral, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around central section of body, formed by uneven, shallow vertical tooling indents; a second trail in turquoise blue added to middle of body, mingling with the yellow trail; below zigzag pattern, a yellow and a turquoise blue trail wound once round body .
Intact; dulling, pitting, and faint iridescence.

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

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