Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

Unknown

late 6th–5th century BCE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Opaque dark purple, with handle and foot in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue. Applied broad trefoil rim-disk, with tooling indents at sides; cylindrical neck; broad angular shoulder; large ovoid body; applied irregular outsplayed foot with pushed-in bottom; handle attached to shoulder in a pad, drawn up and out, and turned in, forming an arch slightly above rim-disk, then dropped down and pressed on to back of neck below rim. Yellow and turquoise trails, mixed together, attached at edge of rim-disk; a second yellow trail applied under handle, wound horizontally two and a half times around top of body, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern, intermingling with a turquoise blue trail; below zigzag, a fine yellow trail wound horizontally three times around body; a yellow trail wound around edge of foot. Intact, but some of trails deeply weathered, leaving hollows in body; white gritty inclusions; dulling and pitting, but only faint iridescence.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 6th–5th century BCE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881