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Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Artist: Dominick Labino (American, 1910-1987)
Date: 1965
Dimensions:
H: 4 7/16 in. (11.2 cm); Diam: 1 5/16 in. (3.4 cm)
Medium: Glass; core-formed, applied rim-disk and handles, applied marvered threads.
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Dominick Labino, Grand Rapids, Ohio
Object number: 1966.124
DescriptionOpaque white ground with cobalt-blue decoration. Broad, horizontal rim-disk with rounded edge; short cylindrical neck; straight-sided cylindrical body; convex bottom. On the upper part of the body, two vertical opaque white handles. A marvered cobalt-blue thread attached at the edge of the rim-disk; another marvered cobalt-blue thread begun on the underside of the rim-disk and wound horizontally to the top of the handles; below this, another marvered cobalt-blue thread attached to the lower part of the body and tooled into a widely spaced feather pattern; another marvered cobalt-blue thread wound horizontally around the lower part of the body.
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