Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white.
Rim-disk with thick rounded edge, uneven with radiating tooling marks on upper surface and projecting jagged inner edge to mouth; straight-sided fusiform body expanding downward, then tapering in to pointed bottom; two horizontal lug handles applied over trail at top of body, one slightly higher than the other.
Thick trail applied around rim; another trail attached at bottom, drawn up in a spiral to point of carination, tooled into a festoon pattern on side with twelve upward strokes, and wound round again in spiral ending on rim.
Intact; some dulling, a few deep pitting holes, and faint iridescence.
Rim-disk with thick rounded edge, uneven with radiating tooling marks on upper surface and projecting jagged inner edge to mouth; straight-sided fusiform body expanding downward, then tapering in to pointed bottom; two horizontal lug handles applied over trail at top of body, one slightly higher than the other.
Thick trail applied around rim; another trail attached at bottom, drawn up in a spiral to point of carination, tooled into a festoon pattern on side with twelve upward strokes, and wound round again in spiral ending on rim.
Intact; some dulling, a few deep pitting holes, and faint iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
- Period: Hellenistic
- Date: 2nd–mid 1st century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group III
- Dimensions: Height: 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm)
Diameter: 1 1/2 × 7/8 in. (3.8 × 2.3 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.311
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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