Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow, opaque white, and opaque turquoise blue.
Broad rim-disk, formed as a coil with slightly sloping upper surface; cylindrical neck, tapering downward; narrow angular shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with slight upward taper and slightly uneven surface; convex bottom; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles, with trailing tails, applied over trail pattern.
A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk and wound round twice; on body, alternating bands of yellow, white, and turquoise blue, tooled from shoulder to undercurve at bottom into a close-set feather pattern in eight vertical patterns with alternating upward and downward strokes, forming rounded loops at top and bottom.
Intact, except for small weathered chip in rim-disk; dulling, pitting, and large areas of iridescent weathering, with some small patches of limy and black encrustation.
Broad rim-disk, formed as a coil with slightly sloping upper surface; cylindrical neck, tapering downward; narrow angular shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with slight upward taper and slightly uneven surface; convex bottom; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles, with trailing tails, applied over trail pattern.
A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk and wound round twice; on body, alternating bands of yellow, white, and turquoise blue, tooled from shoulder to undercurve at bottom into a close-set feather pattern in eight vertical patterns with alternating upward and downward strokes, forming rounded loops at top and bottom.
Intact, except for small weathered chip in rim-disk; dulling, pitting, and large areas of iridescent weathering, with some small patches of limy and black encrustation.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
- Period: Early Hellenistic
- Date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE
- Culture: Eastern Mediterranean or South Italian
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group II
- Dimensions: H.: 6 15/16 in. (17.6 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
- Object Number: 30.115.34
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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