Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trail in opaque white.
Inward-sloping irregular rim-disk with rounded edge and radiating tooling marks on upper surface; cylindrical neck, expanding downward; straight-sided fusiform body expanding downward, then tapering in to pointed bottom; two horizontal lug handles applied over trail at top of body.
Trail applied at bottom, wound upwards in a spiral to carination, tooled into a festoon around side, with twelve upward strokes, then wound again in a spiral up neck and partially around rim, and trailed off with backward swirl down neck.
Intact, but one handle completely missing; dulling, pitting, and faint iridescence.

Blue, with white wave pattern; two solid handles.

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

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