Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

Unknown

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

Opaque white, with handle and foot in same color; trails in translucent purple. Applied trefoil rim-disk; rather tall cylindrical neck, tapering slightly downwards; angular shoulder; ovoid body; applied outsplayed foot with uneven concave bottom; handle attached to top of body over trail decoration, drawn up and out,arching above rim-disk, then turned in and pressed on to back of rim-disk and top of neck. One trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a second thick trail applied to shoulder, wound horizontally four or five times around top of body, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around upper half of body; below this, another trail wound horizontally twice around lower body; finally, a fourth trail wound around edge of foot. Intact; dulling, and severe pitting and weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 6th–5th century BCE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915