Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)
Eastern Mediterranean or Italian
Not on view
Translucent cobalt blue, with handle in same color; trails in opaque yellow.
Elongated trefoil rim-disk; neck expanding downward to shoulder; ovoid body tapering downwards; applied circular pad-base, flattened on bottom, with rounded edge; vestiges of handle on top of neck and back of rim-disk.
A fine trail attached at edge of rim-disk, and drawn down to form horizontal line around neck; another thicker trail applied to shoulder and wound in a spiral three times around upper body, then drawn down and wound twice around underside of body, partly obscured by pad-base.
Body complete, but most of handle missing and hole in edge of shoulder where lower end of handle had been applied; slight dulling and pitting, with faint iridescent weathering.
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