Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Unknown

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

Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trail in uncertain color (opaque white ?). Broad horizontal rim-disk, sloping slightly outward; tall cylindrical neck; narrow horizontal shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with upward taper; convex bottom; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles, both pierced, with short pointed trails, applied over trail pattern. A single fine trail wound around body, tooled from top to bottom of body into a close-set zigzag pattern in ten vertical panels with deep vertical indents. Broken and repaired around lower body, with three large holes; some large white inclusions; dulling, deep pitting, and weathering, leaving little trace of the trail decoration.

Artist

Unknown

Date

mid-4th–early 3rd century BCE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917