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 rim-disk, formed as a coil with slightly sloping upper surface; cylindrical neck, tapering downward; narrow angular shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with slight upward taper and slightly uneven surface; convex bottom; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles, with trailing tails, applied over trail pattern.
A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk and wound round twice; on body, alternating bands of yellow, white, and turquoise blue, tooled from shoulder to undercurve at bottom into a close-set feather pattern in eight vertical patterns with alternating upward and downward strokes, forming rounded loops at top and bottom.
Intact, except for small weathered chip in rim-disk; dulling, pitting, and large areas of iridescent weathering, with some small patches of limy and black encrustation.

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

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