Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 157

Translucent blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.
Broad, slightly inward-sloping rim-disk; cylindrical neck with concave sides; broad sloping shoulder; top-shaped body; small circular base-knob with flat bottom; two vertical strap handles applied to shoulder, drawn up, and pressed onto neck and underside of disk-rim.
A yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another thick yellow trail applied at base of neck, wound down in a spiral across shoulder and around top of body, then tooled into an uneven close-set zigzag pattern on upper half of body, where a turquoise blue trail is added, mingling with the yellow; below, a fine yellow trail wound horizontally twice around middle of body.
Complete, except for large chip in rim-disk; slight dulling and pitting, and small patches of creamy brown iridescent weathering.

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

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