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Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Glass alabastron (perfume bottle). Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean. Dimensions: H.: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm). Date: late 6th-5th century B.C.. Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue. Broad, inward sloping rim-disk, with radiating tool marks on upper surface and uneven edge around mouth; short cylindrical neck with downward taper; narrow rounded shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, tapering upwards; convex bottom; two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration. Turquoise blue trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a yellow trail applied on underside of rim-disk and wound down in a spiral to middle of body, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern; a turquoise blue trail is added, mingling with yellow; immediately below zigzag, another yellow trail and another turquoise blue trail are wound horizontally once around body. Intact; dulling and milky iridescent weathering.
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Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
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Glass alabastron (perfume bottle). Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean. Dimensions: H.: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm). Date: late 6th-5th century B.C.. Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue. Broad, inward sloping rim-disk, with radiating tool marks on upper surface and uneven edge around mouth; short cylindrical neck with downward taper; narrow rounded shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, tapering upwards; convex bottom; two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration. Turquoise blue trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a yellow trail applied on underside of rim-disk and wound down in a spiral to middle of body, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern; a turquoise blue trail is added, mingling with yellow; immediately below zigzag, another yellow trail and another turquoise blue trail are wound horizontally once around body. Intact; dulling and milky iridescent weathering.
Technique/matériel:
Glass; core-formed, Group I
Période:
classical
Musée:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Crédit:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Modèle: Non - Propriété: Non
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Taille de l'image:
4200 x 4200 px | 50.5 MB
Taille d'impression:
35.6 x 35.6 cm | 14.0 x 14.0 in (300 dpi)
Mots clés:
EUROPE (CONTINENT) • GRECE • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA