Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Eastern Mediterranean or South Italian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 159

Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow, opaque white, and opaque turquoise blue.
Broad horizontal rim-disk, with radiating tooling marks on upper and lower surfaces; cylindrical neck, tapering upward; shallow, uneven shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with slight upward taper and slightly uneven surface; convex, slightly pointed bottom; below shoulder, two irregular trailed knob handles, applied over trail pattern.
A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; on body, alternating bands of yellow, white, and turquoise blue, tooled from shoulder to undercurve at bottom into a close-set feather pattern in seven vertical patterns with alternating upward and downward strokes.
Intact, except for small internal cracks on bottom; some of trails completely weathered, leaving only impressions in sides of body; many tiny white inclusions; some pitting and small areas of iridescent weathering.

Glass alabastron (perfume bottle), Glass, Eastern Mediterranean or South Italian

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