Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Opaque white, with handles and base-knob in same color; trails in translucent purple.
Broad, inward-sloping rim-disk, aslant to neck; cylindrical neck with concave sides; broad sloping shoulder; elongated ovoid body tapering to a point; circular base-knob with rounded edge; two vertical strap handles applied over trails, drawn up from top of shoulder, turned in, and pressed on to neck.
One trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another trail applied at base of neck, wound round in a spiral on shoulder, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern on upper half of body; below this, another thinner trail wound round twice horizontally; a third fine trail around bottom edge of base-knob.
Complete, except for weathered chip in rim-disk; dulling, pitting, faint iridescence, and most of body covered with creamy iridescent weathering.

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

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