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Alabastron (perfume bottle)

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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.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics 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). Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of the Misses Norton
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Title: Alabastron (perfume bottle)
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.

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