Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Translucent deep turquoise blue, with handles in same color; trail in opaque white.
Moderately broad rim-disk, sloping inward, with projecting jagged inner edge to neck; slender cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; straight-sided fusiform body expanding downward, then tapering in to pointed bottom; two lug handles applied over trail at top of body.
Trail attached near bottom, drawn up in a spiral to point of carination, tooled into a close-set feather pattern around side, arranged in uneven panels of alternating eight upward and seven downward strokes, then tooled into a narrow band of festoons, and wound round again in spiral ending on outer lip of rim.
Intact; dulling, pitting, faint iridescence, and patches of thick brown weathering.
Moderately broad rim-disk, sloping inward, with projecting jagged inner edge to neck; slender cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; straight-sided fusiform body expanding downward, then tapering in to pointed bottom; two lug handles applied over trail at top of body.
Trail attached near bottom, drawn up in a spiral to point of carination, tooled into a close-set feather pattern around side, arranged in uneven panels of alternating eight upward and seven downward strokes, then tooled into a narrow band of festoons, and wound round again in spiral ending on outer lip of rim.
Intact; dulling, pitting, faint iridescence, and patches of thick brown weathering.
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: H.: 4 11/16 in. (11.9 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1374
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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