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Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

mid-4th–early 3rd century BCE
Not on view
Translucent pale honey brown, with handles in darker honey brown; trails in opaque yellow, opaque turquoise blue, and opaque white.
Broad horizontal rim-disk, with radiating tooling marks on underside; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; narrow sloping shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with slight upward taper; convex bottom; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles, not pierced through, with short pointed trails, applied over trail pattern.
Traces of a fine (yellow ?) trail attached to lower edge of rim-disk; on body, alternating bands of yellow, turquoise, and white, tooled from shoulder to undercurve at bottom into a close-set feather pattern in eleven vertical panels with alternating upward and downward strokes.
Broken and repaired around body, with several holes and gaps in joins; dulling, some deep pitting holes, and creamy iridescent weathering.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
  • Period: Late Classical or Hellenistic
  • Date: mid-4th–early 3rd century BCE
  • Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian
  • Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group II
  • Dimensions: H.: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)
  • Classification: Glass
  • Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
  • Object Number: 91.1.1378
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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