Unguent Bottle (Oinochoe)

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Unguent Bottle (Oinochoe)

Place of Originpossibly Spain

Datelate 19th-early 20th century

DimensionsGlass Dimensions: 4 1/2 × 2 3/4 × 1 3/8 × 1 11/16 in. (11.4 × 7 × 3.5 × 4.3 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1970.4

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DescriptionBlown with dragged and marvered thread decoration Oinochoe. Cobalt-blue ground with opaque white and opaque orange decoration. Upright trefoil rim with rounded edge; funnel-shaped neck; almost right-angled shoulder; broad, almost spherical body; outsplayed, closed cut-out foot, with rounded edge, concave on the underside. A vertical cobalt-blue strap handle extends from the shoulder to the rim, where it has an S-shaped handle attachment. A partly marvered opaque white thread is attached at the edge of the rim, then wound spirally in unmarvered horizontal lines around the neck; another opaque white thread and an opaque orange thread, both marvered, begun on the shoulder and tooled into a broad festoon pattern to below the middle of the body.

Published ReferencesCollection de feu Omar Pasha Sultan, le Caire, Paris, 1929, probably no. 441, pl. 67 (middle shelf, right; a large broken air bubble on one festoon seems to confirm this identification).

Grose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-Formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B. C. to A. D. 50, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 702, p. 391.