Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)
Translucent cobalt blue, with handle in same color; trails in opaque yellow.
Elongated trefoil rim-disk; neck expanding downward to shoulder; ovoid body tapering downwards; applied circular pad-base, flattened on bottom, with rounded edge; vestiges of handle on top of neck and back of rim-disk.
A fine trail attached at edge of rim-disk, and drawn down to form horizontal line around neck; another thicker trail applied to shoulder and wound in a spiral three times around upper body, then drawn down and wound twice around underside of body, partly obscured by pad-base.
Body complete, but most of handle missing and hole in edge of shoulder where lower end of handle had been applied; slight dulling and pitting, with faint iridescent weathering.
Elongated trefoil rim-disk; neck expanding downward to shoulder; ovoid body tapering downwards; applied circular pad-base, flattened on bottom, with rounded edge; vestiges of handle on top of neck and back of rim-disk.
A fine trail attached at edge of rim-disk, and drawn down to form horizontal line around neck; another thicker trail applied to shoulder and wound in a spiral three times around upper body, then drawn down and wound twice around underside of body, partly obscured by pad-base.
Body complete, but most of handle missing and hole in edge of shoulder where lower end of handle had been applied; slight dulling and pitting, with faint iridescent weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)
- Period: Late Classical or Hellenistic
- Date: 4th–3rd century BCE
- Culture: Eastern Mediterranean or Italian
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group II
- Dimensions: H.: 2 in. (5.1 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.331
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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mid-4th–early 3rd century BCE
Etruscan
early 5th century BCE
Tondo Group
ca. 325–300 BCE
Eastern Mediterranean or South Italian
late 4th–early 3rd century BCE
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late 4th–early 3rd century BCE
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