Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)
Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian
Not on view
Translucent honey brown, with handle in same color; trails in opaque yellow, opaque white, and opaque turquoise blue.
Applied trefoil rim-disk; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; broad rounded shoulder; slightly convex sides to body with downward taper; applied low circular coiled pad-base, slightly concave on bottom; strap handle attached in pad to outer edge of shoulder.
A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another unmarvered yellow trail wound spirally four times around neck; on body, alternating bands of yellow, white, and turquoise trails wound round from shoulder to pad-base and tooled into a close-set feather pattern in eleven vertical panels with alternating upward and downward strokes, creating long loops at top and bottom.
Broken and repaired, with many holes in rim and neck and most of handle missing; one large chip in body and two small chips in pad-base; dulling, pitting, and faint iridescent weathering.
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