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Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Glass alabastron (perfume bottle). Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean. Dimensions: H.: 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm). Date: late 4th-early 3rd century B.C.. Translucent pale yellowish green with darker blue green streaks, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue. Horizontal rim-disk; tall cylindrical, slanting neck; small sloping shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with slight upward taper; convex bottom but with off-center pointed tip; on body, two lug handles, applied over trail pattern; one with a tooled upward horizontal indent, the other with a sideways vertical indent. On body yellow and turquoise blue trails tooled in six alternating bands into a widely spaced feather pattern with five vertical panels of upward and downward strokes, ending around edge of bottom. Weathered and encrusted chip in rim; broken and repaired around lower body with one large hole; dulling, slight pitting, and iridescence, with one patch of brownish encrustation on rim-disk and neck.
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Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
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Glass alabastron (perfume bottle). Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean. Dimensions: H.: 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm). Date: late 4th-early 3rd century B.C.. Translucent pale yellowish green with darker blue green streaks, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue. Horizontal rim-disk; tall cylindrical, slanting neck; small sloping shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with slight upward taper; convex bottom but with off-center pointed tip; on body, two lug handles, applied over trail pattern; one with a tooled upward horizontal indent, the other with a sideways vertical indent. On body yellow and turquoise blue trails tooled in six alternating bands into a widely spaced feather pattern with five vertical panels of upward and downward strokes, ending around edge of bottom. Weathered and encrusted chip in rim; broken and repaired around lower body with one large hole; dulling, slight pitting, and iridescence, with one patch of brownish encrustation on rim-disk and neck.
Technique/matériel:
Glass; core-formed, Group II
Période:
Early Hellenistic
Musée:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Crédit:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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3150 x 4200 px | 37.9 MB
Taille d'impression:
26.7 x 35.6 cm | 10.5 x 14.0 in (300 dpi)
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