Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Unknown

5th century BCE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Uncertain, appearing opaque black, with handles in same color; trails in opaque turquoise blue. Broad horizontal rim-disk with rounded, raised lip around mouth; slanting cylindrical neck, tapering downwards; narrow rounded shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body; lopsided convex bottom; two large vertical ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration; one longer than the other. A trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another trail applied to top of body, wound in a close-set, regular spiral down body, ending around bottom. Intact; some limy encrustation down one side, and rest covered with iridescent creamy white weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

5th century BCE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915