Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

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.

Glass oinochoe (perfume jug), Glass, Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

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