Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 162

Translucent blue, with handles in light blue green; trail in opaque greyish light blue.
Broad slightly inward-sloping rim-disk with thick rounded edge and radiating tooling marks on lower surface; tall cylindrical neck, expanding downward; straight-sided fusiform body expanding downward, then tapering in to pointed bottom; two horizontal lug handles applied over trail at top of body, one with a deep horizontal indent in surface; one small marvered blob of translucent blue on side just below point of greatest diameter.
Trail applied at bottom, wound upwards in a spiral to carination, tooled into a close-set feather pattern around side, with fourteen alternating upward and downward strokes, then wound again in a spiral up neck and irregularly to top and edge of rim-disk.
Intact, but some internal cracks around body; slight dulling, pitting, and patches of creamy weathering and iridescence.

Glass alabastron (perfume bottle), Glass, Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

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