Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

Unknown

mid-4th–early 3rd century BCE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent cobalt blue, with handle in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque white, with specks of opaque turquoise blue. Applied trefoil rim-disk; cylindrical neck; broad rounded shoulder; straight-sided body with marked downward taper; applied low circular coiled pad-base, slightly concave on bottom; strap handle attached in claw pad to outer edge of shoulder and top of body, drawn up, curved round and down, and appied to back of rim-disk. A fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another unmarvered yellow trail wound spirally five times around neck; on body, alternating bands of yellow and white trails wound round from shoulder to pad-base and tooled into a close-set feather pattern in fourteen vertical panels with alternating upward and downward strokes, another fine yellow trail attached at edge of pad-base. Broken and repaired, with part of front of trefoil rim missing and several chips in pad-base; dulling, pitting, and some iridescent weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

mid-4th–early 3rd century BCE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881