Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Unknown

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

Translucent dark cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white. Inward-sloping rim-disk; tall, slanting, cylindrical neck; short, rounded shoulder; straight-sided body with upward taper; convex bottom; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles with long knobbed tails, applied over trails. One trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another applied on neck below rim, tooled into a close-set feather pattern from top of shoulder to just above bottom with long vertical tooling indents; below this, trail ends in a spiral twist around bottom. Intact, except for one chip in rim; dulling, deep pitting, and 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