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This is a substantial Ancient Greek elegant perfume oil phial / alabastron with a long narrow body and rounded base, 6th Century B.C. from South Italy. Provenance: from an old Sussex Collection c.1950. The artefact is in very fine condition, measures 245mm tall and comes with a Perspex stand.
The alabastron, a slender elongated form with a disk rim, functioned as a container for perfumed oil. It was used primarily by women at their bath or as a votive to be placed upon a funeral pyre or in a tomb. Both the name and the shape derive from earlier Egyptian examples made of yellowish-white alabaster.
Price: £195.00
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