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Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Artist: Dominick Labino (American, 1910-1987)
Date: 1965
Dimensions:
H: 4 1/32 in. (10.2 cm); Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 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: 1966.123
DescriptionOpaque medium blue ground with a few streaks of opaque red, and with opaque white decoration. Broad, uneven 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 medium blue ring handles with protruding lower ends. A marvered opaque white thread begun on the neck and wound spirally, at first in a few horizontal lines, then tooled into an irregular festoon pattern. No pontil mark.
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