Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

late 6th–5th century BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171
Opaque white, with handle and foot in same color; trails in translucent purple.
Applied trefoil rim-disk; rather tall cylindrical neck, tapering slightly downwards; angular shoulder; ovoid body; applied outsplayed foot with uneven concave bottom; handle attached to top of body over trail decoration, drawn up and out,arching above rim-disk, then turned in and pressed on to back of rim-disk and top of neck.
One trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a second thick trail applied to shoulder, wound horizontally four or five times around top of body, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around upper half of body; below this, another trail wound horizontally twice around lower body; finally, a fourth trail wound around edge of foot.
Intact; dulling, and severe pitting and weathering.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • 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 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
  • Classification: Glass
  • Credit Line: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
  • Object Number: 30.115.37
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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