Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Description: | The body is extremely globular. The absence of the foot, the out-turned lip, and the two small lugs associate the vase with a series of globular alabastra. H. 5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm) |
Period: | Archaic II |
Date: | 599 - 400 BC |
Collection: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Provenance: | From Cyprus |
References: | Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1625, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 524, p. 388, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.5091 |