Alabastron (perfume bottle)
2nd century BCE-first century CE
Description
Alabstron (unguent bottle) with cobalt blue ground and opaque yellow and light blue trail in a feather decoration running spirally down the length of the body. Narrow rim disk with rounded edge; short cylindrical neck; rounded shoulder; cylindrical body tapering slightly inward at the bottom. For similar vessels see: M. Stern. Early Ancient Glass: The Toledo Museum. nos. 162-164.
Dimensions
10.4 x 2.8 cm (width at handles) (4 1/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
Provenance
Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were the daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
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