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Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

mid-4th–early 3rd century BCE
Not on view
Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow.
Broad horizontal rim-disk with radiating tooling marks around narrow mouth; short cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with upward taper; slightly convex bottom; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles, unpierced, applied over trail pattern.
A yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another yellow trail applied from shoulder in spiral and extending to edge of bottom, tooled into an inverted festoon pattern with eleven unevenly-spaced downward strokes.
Intact; dulling, some deep pitting holes, and faint iridescent weathering.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
  • Period: Late Classical or Hellenistic
  • Date: mid-4th–early 3rd century BCE
  • Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian
  • Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group II
  • Dimensions: H.: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)
  • Classification: Glass
  • Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
  • Object Number: 91.1.1376
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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