Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)
Opaque white, with handle and foot in same color but with some purple streaks; trails in translucent purple.
Applied broad trefoil rim-disk, with edge of mouth projecting above inside of rim-disk; short, slightly-square shaped, concave neck; broad sloping shoulder; large ovoid body; applied outsplayed foot with uneven slightly convex bottom; handle attached as a large flattened pad to top of body over trail decoration, drawn up and slightly out, then turned in, arching well above rim-disk, then down and pressed on to back of neck below rim.
One trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a second thick trail wound horizontally twice around shoulder and top of body, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around upper half of body; below this, a third, fine trail wound horizontally three times around body; finally, a fourth unmarvered trail wound around edge of foot.
Intact; some dulling and pitting, and patches of iridescent creamy brown weathering.
Applied broad trefoil rim-disk, with edge of mouth projecting above inside of rim-disk; short, slightly-square shaped, concave neck; broad sloping shoulder; large ovoid body; applied outsplayed foot with uneven slightly convex bottom; handle attached as a large flattened pad to top of body over trail decoration, drawn up and slightly out, then turned in, arching well above rim-disk, then down and pressed on to back of neck below rim.
One trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a second thick trail wound horizontally twice around shoulder and top of body, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around upper half of body; below this, a third, fine trail wound horizontally three times around body; finally, a fourth unmarvered trail wound around edge of foot.
Intact; some dulling and pitting, and patches of iridescent creamy brown weathering.
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: 4 9/16 × 2 3/8 in. (11.6 × 6.1 cm)
Diam. of foot: 1 1/16 in. (2.6 cm)
Height (without handle): 4 in. (10.2 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.799
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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