Unguent Bottle (Oinochoe)

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Unguent Bottle (Oinochoe)

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean or Italy

DateMid-4th through early 3rd century BCE

DimensionsH: 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm); Rim Diam: 1 9/16 in. (3.9 cm); Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.149

Not on View

DescriptionOinochoe. Cobalt-blue ground (appearing black), with opaque yellow and opaque white decoration. Broad trefoil rim-disk; cylindrical neck; almost right-angled junction with rounded shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body with downward taper; low, circular pad-base, asymmetrical, uneven, and slightly concave on its underside. A cobalt-blue strap handle extends from the shoulder to the edge of the rim-disk; the handle arches above the rim-disk. An unmarvered opaque yellow thread attached at the edge of the rim-disk; a second unmarvered opaque yellow thread begun at the top of the neck and wound spirally in horizontal lines to near the bottom of the neck; a third opaque yellow thread, marvered, begun on the shoulder and wound spirally in horizontal lines twice around the body, then tooled into a feather pattern extending to the base; mingling with it in alternating bands, an opaque white marvered thread; an unmarvered opaque yellow thread is wound around the edge of the pad-base. Core-formed; applied rim-disk, handle, and pad-base; applied marvered and unmarvered threads.

Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 12.

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. 149, p. 162, repr. (col.) p. 104.