Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque white.
Broad horizontal rim-disk, made as a spiral coil around top of neck; cylindrical neck, tapering downwards; narrow, almost horizontal shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with slight upward taper; faceted bottom ending in slight point; below shoulder, two small horizontal ring handles, only one of which is pierced through vertically, 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 eight vertical patterns with alternating upward and downward strokes, with well-defined loops at top and bottom.
Intact; dulling, pitting, and some creamy iridescent weathering.
Broad horizontal rim-disk, made as a spiral coil around top of neck; cylindrical neck, tapering downwards; narrow, almost horizontal shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with slight upward taper; faceted bottom ending in slight point; below shoulder, two small horizontal ring handles, only one of which is pierced through vertically, 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 eight vertical patterns with alternating upward and downward strokes, with well-defined loops at top and bottom.
Intact; dulling, pitting, and some creamy iridescent weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
- Period: Late Classical or Hellenistic
- Date: 4th–3rd century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group II
- Dimensions: H.: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm)
Diam.: 1 13/16 x 2 1/8 in. (4.6 x 5.4 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.789
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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