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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 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.

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. 4 5/16 in. (11 cm)
  • Classification: Glass
  • Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
  • Object Number: 17.194.775
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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