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perfume bottle

Object NamePerfume Bottle

Made FromGlass

Date599-400 BCE

Techniquetrail decorated and tooled

SizeOverall H: 13.75 cm; Body Diam: 4.25 cm

Accession Number50.1.4

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Treasures in Glass

Place Made

possibly Rhodes

Physical DescriptionTranslucent deep blue glass matrix, very bubbly with much stone, applied trails of opaque white, opaque turquoise and opaque yellow glass; core-formed, trail-decorated and tooled. Rounded rim flared out with applied trail of yellow glass, badly broken short cylindrical neck retains a second trail of yellow glass, restored neck bends down into shoulder and spreads out into elongated ovoid body, white trails are applied and marvered in at the shoulder ca. 2 cm. below along with a single turquoise trail, two more white trails frame a turquoise trail near the base at the greatest diameter; two "ducks head" handles are applied below the turquoise trail on the body and below them two wide registers of alternating yellow and turquoise trails have been dragged alternately up and down thirty-four times creating a slightly ribbed effect on the surface; below the second register a single trail of turquoise and white have been dragged into a zigzag pattern along with the wider registers above; on the rounded bottom a single white trail outlines a flower or rosette with yellow center and six white petals.
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