Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque white.
Narrow, inward-sloping rim-disk, with outsplayed rounded edge; short cylindrical neck with tooled indent around base; very small angular shoulder; convex sides to cylindrical body, tapering upwards; convex bottom; two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration.
A yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a white trail applied on upper body, wound down, tooled into an inverted festoon pattern, with ten irregular downward strokes mixing and blurring trails with blue ground.
Intact; some dulling and encrustation on one side, and faint iridescence.
Narrow, inward-sloping rim-disk, with outsplayed rounded edge; short cylindrical neck with tooled indent around base; very small angular shoulder; convex sides to cylindrical body, tapering upwards; convex bottom; two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration.
A yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a white trail applied on upper body, wound down, tooled into an inverted festoon pattern, with ten irregular downward strokes mixing and blurring trails with blue ground.
Intact; some dulling and encrustation on one side, and faint iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
- Period: Classical
- Date: late 6th–5th century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group I
- Dimensions: 3 5/8 × 1 3/16 × 1 3/16 in. (9.2 × 3 × 3 cm)
Diam. of rim: 15/16 in. (2.4 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1338
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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