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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
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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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