Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent blue, with handle and foot in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.
Applied broad trefoil rim-disk, with upright spout; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; angular shoulder; large ovoid body; applied irregular outsplayed foot with rounded edge and pushed-in bottom; handle attached to upper body in a pad over trail decoration, drawn up and out, and turned in, forming an arch slightly above rim-disk, then dropped down and pressed on to back of neck below rim-disk.
Yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a second yellow trail applied as a thick unmarvered line on upper body, wound horizontally four times, then tooled into a close-set, narrow zigzag pattern, intermingling with a turquoise blue trail; below, another yellow trail wound horizontally three times around body; a yellow trail partially wound around edge of foot.
Intact; dulling, slight pitting, iridescence, and creamy brown weathering, especially covering trails.

Glass oinochoe (perfume jug), Glass, Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

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