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Glass unguentarium (perfume bottle)

Glass unguentarium (perfume bottle). Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean, possibly Alexandrian. Dimensions: H.: 4 in. (10.1 cm). Date: 3rd century B.C.. Translucent light blue, with opaque turquoise green handles, rim-disk, and pad-base; trails in opaque white and uncertain color, appearing opaque reddish brown. Turquoise green trail applied as outsplayed rim-disk around jagged top edge of neck; tall, slender neck, tapering slightly downward; steeply sloping shoulder; elongated piriform body, tapering downward to applied; small pad-base with uneven flat bottom; two small loop handles applied to edge of shoulder and top of body with everted upward angle. White and reddish brown trails attached at top of neck and wound down as alternate spiral lines, tooled into a festoon pattern round upper half of body, with fifteen upward tooling strokes. Intact; some dulling and pitting, especially of turquoise blue additions, and areas of creamy brown weathering and iridescence.
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Title:
Glass unguentarium (perfume bottle)
Caption:
Glass unguentarium (perfume bottle). Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean, possibly Alexandrian. Dimensions: H.: 4 in. (10.1 cm). Date: 3rd century B.C.. Translucent light blue, with opaque turquoise green handles, rim-disk, and pad-base; trails in opaque white and uncertain color, appearing opaque reddish brown. Turquoise green trail applied as outsplayed rim-disk around jagged top edge of neck; tall, slender neck, tapering slightly downward; steeply sloping shoulder; elongated piriform body, tapering downward to applied; small pad-base with uneven flat bottom; two small loop handles applied to edge of shoulder and top of body with everted upward angle. White and reddish brown trails attached at top of neck and wound down as alternate spiral lines, tooled into a festoon pattern round upper half of body, with fifteen upward tooling strokes. Intact; some dulling and pitting, especially of turquoise blue additions, and areas of creamy brown weathering and iridescence.
Technique/material:
Glass; core-formed, Group II
Period:
Hellenistic
Museum:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Credit:
Album
Releases:
? Model Release: No - ? Property Release: No
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Image size:
4200 x 4200 px | 50.5 MB
Print size:
35.6 x 35.6 cm | 14.0 x 14.0 in (300 dpi)
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