Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)
Translucent cobalt blue, with handle in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque white, with specks of opaque turquoise blue.
Applied trefoil rim-disk; cylindrical neck; broad rounded shoulder; straight-sided body with marked downward taper; applied low circular coiled pad-base, slightly concave on bottom; strap handle attached in claw pad to outer edge of shoulder and top of body, drawn up, curved round and down, and appied to back of rim-disk.
A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another unmarvered yellow trail wound spirally five times around neck; on body, alternating bands of yellow and white trails wound round from shoulder to pad-base and tooled into a close-set feather pattern in fourteen vertical panels with alternating upward and downward strokes, another fine yellow trail attached at edge of pad-base.
Broken and repaired, with part of front of trefoil rim missing and several chips in pad-base; dulling, pitting, and some iridescent weathering.
Applied trefoil rim-disk; cylindrical neck; broad rounded shoulder; straight-sided body with marked downward taper; applied low circular coiled pad-base, slightly concave on bottom; strap handle attached in claw pad to outer edge of shoulder and top of body, drawn up, curved round and down, and appied to back of rim-disk.
A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another unmarvered yellow trail wound spirally five times around neck; on body, alternating bands of yellow and white trails wound round from shoulder to pad-base and tooled into a close-set feather pattern in fourteen vertical panels with alternating upward and downward strokes, another fine yellow trail attached at edge of pad-base.
Broken and repaired, with part of front of trefoil rim missing and several chips in pad-base; dulling, pitting, and some iridescent weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)
- Period: Late Classical or Hellenistic
- Date: mid-4th–early 3rd century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group II
- Dimensions: H.: 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.343
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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