Glass unguentarium (perfume bottle)

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 158

Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white and opaque yellow.
Uneven horizontal rim-disk, with rounded edge; tall cylindrical neck; broad sloping shoulder; ovoid body; applied tall outsplayed foot, with rounded edge and deep tooled indent in center of flat bottom; below shoulder, two flattened loop handles projecting at an upward angle from body, applied over trail pattern.
A white trail attached to neck and wound down in a spiral and across shoulder, tooled from top of body in a close-set zigzag pattern with deep vertical ribs, then continuing down in a spiral and ending in two horizontal lines around lower body; a yellow trail applied over white halfway down zigzag pattern and continuing immediately below in four close-set horizontal lines.
Complete, except for large chip in rim-disk and projecting loop of one handle; slight dulling and pitting, but very little weathering.

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

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