Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Unknown

late 6th–5th century BCE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white. Slightly concave horizontal rim-disk, with projecting rough edge to mouth; cylindrical neck; narrow rounded shoulder; slightly convex sides to cylindrical body, tapering upwards; convex bottom; two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration; one larger and higher than the other. A trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another trail applied on neck in a thick marvered pad, wound down, tooled into an irregular feather pattern, with strokes mixing and blurring trails with blue ground. Intact; dulling, pitting, and patches of brownish weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 6th–5th century BCE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881