Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)
Opaque white, with handle and foot apparently in opaque white and translucent purple; trails in translucent purple.
Applied broad, trefoil rim-disk with radiating tool marks on upper surface; cylindrical neck with concave sides; broad, sloping shoulder; convex sides to body curving in to flattened bottom; applied outsplayed foot, with uneven underside; handle applied on shoulder over trails and pressed on to underside of rim-disk and top of neck.
One trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another trail applied to edge of shoulder, wound round in a spiral, then tooled into an irregular zigzag pattern, and ending on lower body; vertical tooling indents in alternating upward and downward strokes, forming prominent rounded ribs around body; a marvered circular blob applied to side of lower body.
Complete, except for most of handle and chip in rim-disk, both with weaathered breaks; some pitting, most of surfaces covered in thick creamy weathering with faint iridescence.
Opaque white with wavy zigzag pattern in purple.
Applied broad, trefoil rim-disk with radiating tool marks on upper surface; cylindrical neck with concave sides; broad, sloping shoulder; convex sides to body curving in to flattened bottom; applied outsplayed foot, with uneven underside; handle applied on shoulder over trails and pressed on to underside of rim-disk and top of neck.
One trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another trail applied to edge of shoulder, wound round in a spiral, then tooled into an irregular zigzag pattern, and ending on lower body; vertical tooling indents in alternating upward and downward strokes, forming prominent rounded ribs around body; a marvered circular blob applied to side of lower body.
Complete, except for most of handle and chip in rim-disk, both with weaathered breaks; some pitting, most of surfaces covered in thick creamy weathering with faint iridescence.
Opaque white with wavy zigzag pattern in purple.
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. 4 5/16 in. (11 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.775
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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