Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 159

Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white.
Slightly concave horizontal rim-disk, with projecting rough edge to mouth; cylindrical neck; narrow rounded shoulder; slightly convex sides to cylindrical body, tapering upwards; convex bottom; two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration; one larger and higher than the other.
A trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another trail applied on neck in a thick marvered pad, wound down, tooled into an irregular feather pattern, with strokes mixing and blurring trails with blue ground.
Intact; dulling, pitting, and patches of brownish weathering.

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

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