Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

Unknown

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

Translucent cobalt blue, with handle in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue. Applied broad trefoil rim-disk; rather tall cylindrical neck; broad sloping shoulder; ovoid body; applied outsplayed foot with radiating tooling marks on upper surface and deep concave bottom; broad handle attached in a pad to shoulder over trail decoration, drawn up and out, then turned in, arching well above rim-disk, and pressed on to back of rim-disk and neck. Yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a yellow trail applied unevenly to top of neck and wound down spirally across shoulder, then tooled on body around upper half of body with deep vertical ribs; a turquoise blue trail added over yellow and intermingling with it, forming a close-set zigzag pattern; below this, the yellow trail continues in a spiral as an irregular festoon pattern around lower body, ending just about pad-base. Broken and repaired on rim-disk, neck, and handle, with some chips and small holes; dulling, pitting, and milky iridescent weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 6th–5th century BCE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917