Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian
Not on view
Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white (appearing very pale greyish blue) and opaque yellow.
Rim-disk; tall cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; slightly bulbous cylindrical body; small convex bottom; on body, two large lug handles, applied over trail pattern, both with tooled upward indents.
A white trail applied to neck and wound spirally down across body, ending in circle around bottom; another yellow applied to rim-disk and trailed down across neck and upper body over white trail, tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern with shallow vertical ribbing around middle of body, then continuing in uneven horizontal lines and ending with a thick blob spiral around base of body.
Broken and repaired; most of rim-disk and part of neck missing, one large crack with losses around body, and one large hole around bottom; dulling, some pitting, and iridescent milky weathering.
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