Glass perfume bottle
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Thick-walled bottle, containing traces of a red pigment, identified as the mineral cinnabar.
Translucent green.
Everted rim, folded over and in, with beveled upper surface; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly downwards, then tooled in around base; elongated conical body, curving in to uneven, concave bottom.
Intact; pinprick and elongated bubbles, with blowing striations; deep pitting and brilliant iridescence on exterior, encrustation and weathering on interior.
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