Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 159

Semi-opaque cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white.
Broad horizontal rim-disk, made as a spiral coil around top of neck; short cylindrical neck; narrow sloping shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body; convex bottom; on upper body, two vertical ring handles, pierced, applied over trail pattern.
A trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another trail applied from shoulder to edge of bottom, tooled into a festoon pattern with six upward strokes, forming loops at top of body.
Intact, except for part of trail on rim-disk; dulling, some pitting, and faint iridescent weathering.

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

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