Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Opaque white, with handle and foot apparently in opaque white and translucent purple; trails in translucent purple.
Applied broad, trefoil rim-disk with radiating tool marks on upper surface; cylindrical neck with concave sides; broad, sloping shoulder; convex sides to body curving in to flattened bottom; applied outsplayed foot, with uneven underside; handle applied on shoulder over trails and pressed on to underside of rim-disk and top of neck.
One trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another trail applied to edge of shoulder, wound round in a spiral, then tooled into an irregular zigzag pattern, and ending on lower body; vertical tooling indents in alternating upward and downward strokes, forming prominent rounded ribs around body; a marvered circular blob applied to side of lower body.
Complete, except for most of handle and chip in rim-disk, both with weaathered breaks; some pitting, most of surfaces covered in thick creamy weathering with faint iridescence.

Opaque white with wavy zigzag pattern in purple.

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

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