Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Unknown

mid-4th–early 3rd century BCE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque white. Broad horizontal rim-disk, with radiating tooling marks on underside; cylindrical neck, tapering downwards; narrow uneven shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with slight upward taper; uneven convex bottom, with irregular tooling indents; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles, pierced horizontally, applied over trail pattern. A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a fine white trail begun below shoulder, wound spirally down to lower body, tooled into a festoon pattern with well-defined loops, some projecting around shoulder; a second yellow trail added over white near bottom of festoon pattern and continuing below as fine spiral, ending in large flattened blob. Intact; dulling, pitting, and creamy iridescent weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

mid-4th–early 3rd century BCE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Eastern Mediterranean or Italian

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

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