Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Unknown

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

Translucent pale greenish yellow, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow, opaque turquoise blue, and opaque white. Horizontal rim-disk, made as a spiral coil around top of neck; cylindrical, slanting neck; small sloping shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with upward taper; convex bottom; on body, two small ring handles, applied over trail pattern. A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; on body, alternating bands of yellow, turquoise blue, and white, tooled from top of body to bottom into a close-set feather pattern in six vertical panels with alternating upward and downward strokes, forming long loops on bottom. Broken, most of rim-disk missing, internal cracks around neck, and other cracks and small holes around lower body; dulling, pitting, and faint iridescence.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917