Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Unknown

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

Translucent blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white and opaque yellow. Rim-disk, uneven with slight inward taper; short, funnel-shaped cylindrical neck; tall, straight-sided fusiform body expanding downward, then tapering in to pointed bottom; two horizontal lug handles applied over trail at top of body. White trail attached near bottom, drawn up in a spiral to point of carination; yellow trail attached at carination wound slightly over once round in an upward spiral; both trails then drawn up body, tooled into a festoon pattern with fourteen upward strokes, and wound round again in spiral; yellow ending in a backward loop on top of body, and white ending on lip of rim. Intact; some dulling, severe pitting, and brilliant iridescent 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