Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian
Not on view
Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque white.
Broad horizontal rim-disk, sloping slightly outward; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; narrow rounded 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.
A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; on body, alternating bands of yellow and white, tooled from shoulder to undercurve at bottom into a close-set feather pattern in ten vertical panels with alternating upward and downward strokes.
Broken and repaired around body, with three large holes; dulling, some deep pitting holes, and patches of creamy iridescent weathering.
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