Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.
Broad rim-disk, made as a spiral coil around top of neck; broad cylindrical neck; rounded shoulder; almost cylindrical body, with slightly convex sides tapering upwards; almost flat bottom, slightly concave at center; on body, two small solid, rounded knob handles, applied over trail pattern.
A yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a yellow and a turquoise trail applied at top of body, wound down to bottom in a spiral of alternating lines, and tooled into a fairly regular close-set zigzag pattern with alternating upward and downward strokes.
Intact, except for small chip on underside of rim-disk broken; dulling, pitting, and slight iridescent weathering.
Broad rim-disk, made as a spiral coil around top of neck; broad cylindrical neck; rounded shoulder; almost cylindrical body, with slightly convex sides tapering upwards; almost flat bottom, slightly concave at center; on body, two small solid, rounded knob handles, applied over trail pattern.
A yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a yellow and a turquoise trail applied at top of body, wound down to bottom in a spiral of alternating lines, and tooled into a fairly regular close-set zigzag pattern with alternating upward and downward strokes.
Intact, except for small chip on underside of rim-disk broken; dulling, pitting, and slight iridescent weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
- Period: Early Hellenistic
- Date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group II
- Dimensions: 3 × 2 × 1 15/16 in. (7.6 × 5.1 × 4.9 cm)
Diam. of rim: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.772
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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