Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
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Translucent pale blue with greenish tinge, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white.
Rim-disk with thick rounded edge, uneven and sloping inward, with projecting jagged inner edge to neck; slender cylindrical neck, slanting with body to one side; straight-sided fusiform body expanding downward, then tapering in to pointed bottom; two large horizontal lug handles applied over trail at top of body.
Trail applied unevenly around rim-disk; another trail attached at bottom, drawn up in a spiral to point of carination, tooled into a close-set feather pattern around side, arranged in five panels of alternating upward and downward strokes, and wound round again in spiral ending under rim.
Intact; dulling, pitting, iridescence, and creamy weathering.
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