Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Unknown

2nd–mid-1st century BCE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent deep turquoise blue, with handles in same color; trail in opaque white. Moderately broad rim-disk, sloping inward, with projecting jagged inner edge to neck; slender cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; straight-sided fusiform body expanding downward, then tapering in to pointed bottom; two lug handles applied over trail at top of body. Trail attached near bottom, drawn up in a spiral to point of carination, tooled into a close-set feather pattern around side, arranged in uneven panels of alternating eight upward and seven downward strokes, then tooled into a narrow band of festoons, and wound round again in spiral ending on outer lip of rim. Intact; dulling, pitting, faint iridescence, and patches of thick brown weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

2nd–mid-1st century BCE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891