Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Unknown

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

Opaque red brown, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white. Broad horizontal rim-disk; very short cylindrical neck; narrow rounded shoulder; slightly convex sides to body, tapering upwards; convex bottom; two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration. A trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another trail applied to neck, wound in a spiral around body, tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern with alternate upward and downward strokes, and ending in a circle around bottom. Broken and repaired, with one chip in rim-disk and several large holes and cracks in body; dulling, pitting, but very little weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 6th–5th century BCE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917