Glass mosaic perfume bottle

Roman

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Translucent pale blue, with opaque white trails and faint translucent purple streaks.
Very small everted rim; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; squat, globular body; uneven, flat bottom.
Striped mosaic pattern of applied trails wound round on a blue ground and then tooled in four upward strokes into a festoon pattern around body.
Intact, except for slight chipping to rim; pitting of surface bubbles, dulling, iridescence, and thick, layered weathering.

Glass mosaic perfume bottle, Glass, Roman

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