Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 159

Opaque red brown, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white.
Broad horizontal rim-disk; very short cylindrical neck; narrow rounded shoulder; slightly convex sides to body, tapering upwards; convex bottom; two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration.
A trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another trail applied to neck, wound in a spiral around body, tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern with alternate upward and downward strokes, and ending in a circle around bottom.
Broken and repaired, with one chip in rim-disk and several large holes and cracks in body; dulling, pitting, but very little weathering.

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

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