Unguent Bottle (Oinochoe)

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean or Italy

DateMid 4th-early 3rd BCE

DimensionsH: 6 13/16 in. (17.3 cm); Rim Diam: 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm); Max Diam of Body: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm); Base Diam: 2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.129

Not on View

DescriptionLarge oinoche. Dark blue ground with opaque yellow, opaque white, and opaque turquoise-blue decoration. Broad trefoil rim-disk; rather tall cylindrical neck; almost right-angled junction with rounded shoulder; ovoid body with distinct convex curved (as restored); broad, circular blue pad-base, uneven and slightly concave on its underside, with rounded edge. As restored, the vertical blue strap handle extends from the shoulder to the top of the rim-disk. An unmarvered opaque yellow thread attached at the edge of the rim-disk; a second opaque yellow thread and an opaque white thread, both unmarvered, begun at the top of the neck and wound spirally in horizontal lines to the bottom of the neck; a second opaque white, an opaque turquoise-blue, and a third opaque yellow thread begun on the shoulder and tooled into a carelessly formed inverted festoon pattern, each ending in a loop (as restored); below this, an opaque yellow thread, marvered, wound spirally in horizontal line three times around the body; below this, a band of opaque turquoise-blue and opaque white threads, marvered, wound spirally in a shallow, carelessly formed zigzag pattern around the middle of the body; below this, more bands of opaque yellow, opaque turquoise-blue, and opaque white threads wound spirally in horizontal lines around the lower body; an opaque yellow thread, unmarvered, is wound around the edge of the pad-base. Core-formed; applied rim-disk, handle, and pad-base; applied marvered and unmarvered threads.

Published ReferencesGrose, 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. 146, p. 161.