Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 158

Translucent cobalt blue, with handle in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque white.
Applied trefoil rim-disk; short cylindrical neck; broad rounded shoulder; ovoid body with downward taper; applied low circular coiled pad-base, with uneven bottom; strap handle attached to outer edge of shoulder, drawn up and round in a curve, arching above the rim-disk, and attached to top of neck behind rim-disk.
A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another yellow trail wound spirally nearly two times around upper body; a white trail wound spirally four times round upper body, tooled into an irregular zigzag pattern; below, another yellow trail wound horizontally round in two turns and a white trail wound round one and a half times further down body; another fine yellow trail attached at edge of pad-base.
Intact; some dulling, pitting, and iridescent weathering.

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

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