Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) late 4th-early 3rd century B.C. Eastern Mediterranean or Italian Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow, opaque white, and opaque turquoise blue.Broad horizontal rim-disk; cylindrical neck, tapering upward; narrow, almost horizontal shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with slight upward taper; convex bottom, with off-center tooling indent and applied small blob of blue glass; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles, unpierced, with trailing tails, one of which is higher up body than the other, applied over trail pattern.A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; on body, alternating bands of yellow, white, and turquoise blue, tooled from shoulder to undercurve at bottom into a close-set feather pattern in eight vertical patterns with alternating upward and downward strokes, with some of loops at top extending onto neck and some deep indents in sides.Body intact, but parts of rim-disk missing and res
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Image Number: 6145-29834077Royalty FreeCredit Line:Piemags/PL Photography Limited/SuperStockCollection:PL Photography Limited Contributor:Piemags Model Release:NoProperty Release:NoResolution:4000×4000
