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Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Glass alabastron (perfume bottle). Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean. Dimensions: H.: 5 1/16 in. (12.9 cm)
Diam.: 1 7/16 x 1 1/4 in. (3.6 x 3.1 cm). Date: 2nd-1st century B.C..
Translucent blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque white.
Broad rim-disk, uneven and sloping inward with radiating tooling marks on upper and lower surfaces, and jagged, projecting inner lip to neck; cylindrical neck; straight-sided fusiform body expanding downward, then tapering in to pointed bottom; two elongated horizontal lug handles applied at top of body over trails; marvered blob of blue applied over trails on one side at point of greatest diameter.
Trails attached near bottom, drawn up in a spiral to point of carination, tooled into a close-set feather  pattern around side, arranged in seven panels of alternating upward and downward strokes, some slanting and extending onto neck, forming a partial festoon pattern, wound round again in spiral to top of body and on to edge of rim, with white sometimes overlapping yellow.
Intact; some bubbles; very slight dulling, pitting, and iridescent weathering.
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Título: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
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Glass alabastron (perfume bottle). Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean. Dimensions: H.: 5 1/16 in. (12.9 cm) Diam.: 1 7/16 x 1 1/4 in. (3.6 x 3.1 cm). Date: 2nd-1st century B.C.. Translucent blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque white. Broad rim-disk, uneven and sloping inward with radiating tooling marks on upper and lower surfaces, and jagged, projecting inner lip to neck; cylindrical neck; straight-sided fusiform body expanding downward, then tapering in to pointed bottom; two elongated horizontal lug handles applied at top of body over trails; marvered blob of blue applied over trails on one side at point of greatest diameter. Trails attached near bottom, drawn up in a spiral to point of carination, tooled into a close-set feather pattern around side, arranged in seven panels of alternating upward and downward strokes, some slanting and extending onto neck, forming a partial festoon pattern, wound round again in spiral to top of body and on to edge of rim, with white sometimes overlapping yellow. Intact; some bubbles; very slight dulling, pitting, and iridescent weathering.
Técnica/material: Glass; core-formed, Group III
Periodo: late hellenistic
Museo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Crédito: Album
Autorizaciones: ? Cesión de modelo: No - ? Cesión de propiedad: No
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Tamaño imagen: 4200 × 4200 px | 50.5 MB
Tamaño impresión: 35.6 × 35.6 cm | 1653.5 × 1653.5 in (300 dpi)