1920.44.118: Alabastron (perfume bottle)
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1920.44.118
- Title
- Alabastron (perfume bottle)
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 2nd century BCE-first century CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Graeco-Roman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292567
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Glass
- Technique
- Core-formed glass
- Dimensions
- 10.4 x 2.8 cm (width at handles) (4 1/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
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).
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Misses Norton
- Accession Year
- 1920
- Object Number
- 1920.44.118
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- 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.
Subjects and Contexts
- Roman Domestic Art
Verification Level
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