Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Translucent pale greenish yellow, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow, opaque turquoise blue, and opaque white.
Horizontal rim-disk, made as a spiral coil around top of neck; cylindrical, slanting neck; small sloping shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with upward taper; convex bottom; on body, two small ring handles, applied over trail pattern.
A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; on body, alternating bands of yellow, turquoise blue, and white, tooled from top of body to bottom into a close-set feather pattern in six vertical panels with alternating upward and downward strokes, forming long loops on bottom.
Broken, most of rim-disk missing, internal cracks around neck, and other cracks and small holes around lower body; dulling, pitting, and faint iridescence.
Horizontal rim-disk, made as a spiral coil around top of neck; cylindrical, slanting neck; small sloping shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with upward taper; convex bottom; on body, two small ring handles, applied over trail pattern.
A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; on body, alternating bands of yellow, turquoise blue, and white, tooled from top of body to bottom into a close-set feather pattern in six vertical panels with alternating upward and downward strokes, forming long loops on bottom.
Broken, most of rim-disk missing, internal cracks around neck, and other cracks and small holes around lower body; dulling, pitting, and faint iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
- Period: Early Hellenistic
- Date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group II
- Dimensions: 5 1/4 × 1 9/16 × 1 3/8 in. (13.4 × 3.9 × 3.5 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.753
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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