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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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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 / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Autorizaciones:
Modelo: No - Propiedad: No
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Tamaño imagen:
4200 x 4200 px | 50.5 MB
Tamaño impresión:
35.6 x 35.6 cm | 14.0 x 14.0 in (300 dpi)
Palabras clave:
ALABASTRA • ARTE GRIEGO Y ROMANO • EUROPA • GREECE • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • VIDRIO