Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)
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.
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)
- Period: Late Classical or Hellenistic
- Date: 4th–3rd century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group II
- Dimensions: H.: 2 1/4 in. (5.8 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.766
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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