Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Semi opaque turquoise green, with same color handles; trails in opaque yellow and possibly opaque turquoise blue.
Uneven inward-sloping rim-disk; cylindrical neck; broad angular shoulder; almost spherical body; convex bottom, with linear tooling indent across it; two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration, extend from top of body to underside of rim-disk; handles are not directly opposite each other but rather more to one side.
A yellow trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk; another yellow trail applied on shoulder and wound spirally, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around central section of body, where another broader trail is added to the zigzag, mingling with the yellow; below, a fine yellow trail wound horizontally twice around body.
Complete except for chip in rim-disk; film of whitish weathering and brilliant iridescence covering most of bottle.

Glass aryballos (perfume bottle), Glass, Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

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