Unguent Bottle (Oinochoe)
Unguent Bottle (Oinochoe)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly Rhodes
DateLate 6th through 5th centuries BCE
DimensionsH: 4 15/16 in. (10.9 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm); Max Diam of Body: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm); Base Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.89
Not on View
DescriptionOinochoe. Light blue ground with opaque yellow and opaque turquoise-blue decoration. Broad trefoil rim-disk; short cylindrical neck with the lip of the vessel visible within; almost right-angled shoulder; broad ovoid body; convex bottom; short outsplayed light blue foot, concave on its underside. An opaque light blue strap handle extends from the shoulder to the rim-disk; the handle arches well above the rim-disk. A narrow unmarvered opaque yellow thread, with an opaque turquoise-blue thread above it, attached at the edge of the rim-disk. A narrow unmarvered opaque yellow thread, with an opaque turquoise-blue thread above it, attached at the edge of the rim-disk; another opaque yellow thread, marvered, begun on the shoulder and wound spirally, at first in four horizontal lines, then tooled into a zigzag pattern over the middle of the body; below this, an opaque turquoise-blue thread, marvered, is wound spirally twice around the body; the edge of the foot is streaked with opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue. Glass; core-formed; applied rim-disk, handle, and foot; applied marvered and unmarvered threads. Vertical indentations and scratches on the body caused by the tooling of the zigzags.
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 67 and cover.
Grose, David F., "The Origins and Early History of Glass," in The History of Glass, eds. Dan Dlein 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. 116, p. 150.
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
Probably first half of 5th century BCE
Late 6th through 5th centuries BCE
Mid 4th-early 3rd BCE
about 350-275 BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late 4th-early 3rd BCE
late 6th-5th centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
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