Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)
Opaque dark purple, with handle and foot in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.
Applied broad trefoil rim-disk, with tooling indents at sides; cylindrical neck; broad angular shoulder; large ovoid body; applied irregular outsplayed foot with pushed-in bottom; handle attached to shoulder in a pad, 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.
Yellow and turquoise trails, mixed together, attached at edge of rim-disk; a second yellow trail applied under handle, wound horizontally two and a half times around top of body, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern, intermingling with a turquoise blue trail; below zigzag, a fine yellow trail wound horizontally three times around body; a yellow trail wound around edge of foot.
Intact, but some of trails deeply weathered, leaving hollows in body; white gritty inclusions; dulling and pitting, but only faint iridescence.
Applied broad trefoil rim-disk, with tooling indents at sides; cylindrical neck; broad angular shoulder; large ovoid body; applied irregular outsplayed foot with pushed-in bottom; handle attached to shoulder in a pad, 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.
Yellow and turquoise trails, mixed together, attached at edge of rim-disk; a second yellow trail applied under handle, wound horizontally two and a half times around top of body, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern, intermingling with a turquoise blue trail; below zigzag, a fine yellow trail wound horizontally three times around body; a yellow trail wound around edge of foot.
Intact, but some of trails deeply weathered, leaving hollows in body; white gritty inclusions; dulling and pitting, but only faint iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title:Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)
- Period:Classical
- Date:late 6th–5th century BCE
- Culture:Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium:Glass; core-formed, Group I
- Dimensions:H.: 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm)
- Classification:Glass
- Credit Line:Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number:81.10.337
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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mid-4th–early 3rd century BCE
late 10th–early 9th century BCE
mid-4th century BCE
ca. 375–350 BCE
4th quarter of the 6th century BCE
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