Unguent Bottle (Oinochoe)

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Unguent Bottle (Oinochoe)

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly Rhodes

DateLate 6th through 5th centuries BCE

DimensionsH: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm); Rim Diam: 1 in. (2.5 cm); Max Diam of Body: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm); Base Diam: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.180

Not on View

DescriptionSmall oinochoe. Blue ground with opaque yellow (appearing orangish) and opaque turquoise-blue decoration. Broad trefoil rim-disk; cylindrical neck; almost right-angled shoulder; ovoid body; uneven, outsplayed foot, very slightly concave on its underside with a small hole at the center. An opaque blue strap handle extends from the shoulder to the rim-disk; the handle arches well above the rim-disk. An unmarvered opaque yellow thread attached at the edge of the rim-disk; a second opaque yellow thread, marvered, begun on the shoulder and wound spirally, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern to the middle of the body, where an opaque turquoise-blue thread, marvered, is added, mingling with the yellow thread; below this, an opaque yellow thread, marvered, wound spirally twice around the body; an opaque yellow thread, unmarvered, is wound around the edge and underside of the foot. Core-formed; applied rim-disk, handle, and foot; applied marvered and unmarvered threads; tooling marks on the upperside of the foot.

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. 117, p. 150-151.