Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)
Translucent cobalt blue, with handle and pad-base in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque white.
Applied large trefoil rim-disk; cylindrical neck; broad rounded shoulder; slightly convex sides to body with downward taper; applied low circular pad-base with uneven concave bottom; strap handle attached in pad to outer edge of shoulder, drawn up and round in a loop, and pressed onto back of rim-disk and top of neck.
A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another unmarvered yellow trail wound spirally five and a half times around neck; on body, alternating bands of yellow and white trails wound round from edge of shoulder to pad-base and tooled into a close-set feather pattern in sixteen vertical panels with alternating upward and downward strokes, creating long tails at bottom; another fine yellow trail wound round edge of pad-base.
Intact, except for small weathered chip in pad-base; dulling, pitting, and most of surface covered with creamy white weathering and iridescence.
Applied large trefoil rim-disk; cylindrical neck; broad rounded shoulder; slightly convex sides to body with downward taper; applied low circular pad-base with uneven concave bottom; strap handle attached in pad to outer edge of shoulder, drawn up and round in a loop, and pressed onto back of rim-disk and top of neck.
A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another unmarvered yellow trail wound spirally five and a half times around neck; on body, alternating bands of yellow and white trails wound round from edge of shoulder to pad-base and tooled into a close-set feather pattern in sixteen vertical panels with alternating upward and downward strokes, creating long tails at bottom; another fine yellow trail wound round edge of pad-base.
Intact, except for small weathered chip in pad-base; dulling, pitting, and most of surface covered with creamy white weathering and iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)
- Period: Late Classical or Hellenistic
- Date: mid-4th–early 3rd century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group II
- Dimensions: H.: 4 15/16 in. (12.5 cm)
Diam.: 2 3/8 x 2 13/16 in. (6.1 x 7.1 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.595
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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