Trefoil Oinochoe (Pitcher)
Trefoil Oinochoe (Pitcher)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean or Italy
Dateabout 350-275 BCE
DimensionsH: 5 15/16 in (15.0 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.152
Not on View
DescriptionLarge oinochoe. Cobalt-blue ground with opaque yellow, opaque white, and opaque turquoise-blue decoration. Broad trefoil rim-disk; cylindrical neck with downward taper; almost right-angled junction with rounded shoulder; straight-sided, almost cylindrical body with distinct downward taper; circular cobalt-blue pad-base, asymmetrical, uneven, and slightly concave on its underside. A vertical 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 almost horizontal lines to the bottom of the neck; a third opaque yellow thread, marvered, begun on the shoulder and wound spirally in horizontal lines, then tooled into a feather pattern; mingling with it in alternating bands, are marvered opaque white and opaque turquoise-blue threads; an unmarvered opaque yellow thread wound around the edge of the pad-base. Core-formed; applied rim-disk, handle, and pad-base; applied marvered and unmarvered threads. Short vertical indentations on the body caused by the tooling of the feather pattern.
Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 12.
Grose, David F., "Ancient Glass," TMA Museum News 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 68 and cover.
Grose, David F., "The Origins and Early History of Glass," in The History of Glass, eds. Dan Klein and Ward Lloyd, London, 1984, p. 17, ill.
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. 147, p. 161-162, Repr. (col.) p. 104.
Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 22, repr. (col.) fig. 3G, p. 23.
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 65, repr. (col.).
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
Late 4th-early 3rd BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
Mid-4th to early 3rd century BCE
Mid 4th-early 3rd BCE
Probably first half of 5th century BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
late 6th through 5th century BCE
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