Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) late 4th–early 3rd century Eastern Mediterranean or South Italian Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow, opaque white, and opaque turquoise horizontal rim-disk, with radiating tooling marks on upper and lower surfaces; cylindrical neck, tapering upward; shallow, uneven shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with slight upward taper and slightly uneven surface; convex, slightly pointed bottom; below shoulder, two irregular trailed knob handles, applied over trail fine yellow trail attached at
Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) late 4th–early 3rd century Eastern Mediterranean or South Italian Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow, opaque white, and opaque turquoise horizontal rim-disk, with radiating tooling marks on upper and lower surfaces; cylindrical neck, tapering upward; shallow, uneven shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with slight upward taper and slightly uneven surface; convex, slightly pointed bottom; below shoulder, two irregular trailed knob handles, applied over trail fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; on body, alternating bands of yellow, white, and turquoise blue, tooled from shoulder to undercurve at bottom into a close-set feather pattern in seven vertical patterns with alternating upward and downward , except for small internal cracks on bottom; some of trails completely weathered, leaving only impressions in sides of body; many tiny white inclusions; some pitting and small areas of iridescent Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) 253086 Eastern Mediterranean or South Italian, Glass alabastron (perfume bottle), late 4th?early 3rd century , Glass, H.: 6 in. ( cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915 ()
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