Glass oinochoe (perfume jug) late 4th–early 3rd century Eastern Mediterranean or Italian Translucent cobalt blue, with handle and pad-base in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque slender trefoil rim-disk with long spout; cylindrical neck; narrow angular shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, expanding downward, and then curving in to applied circular pad-base with thick rounded edge and uneven flattish bottom; strap handle attached in pad to top of body over trail decoration, with horizontal tooling indent above pad, drawn up and round in a loop, arching above
Glass oinochoe (perfume jug) late 4th–early 3rd century Eastern Mediterranean or Italian Translucent cobalt blue, with handle and pad-base in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque slender trefoil rim-disk with long spout; cylindrical neck; narrow angular shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, expanding downward, and then curving in to applied circular pad-base with thick rounded edge and uneven flattish bottom; strap handle attached in pad to top of body over trail decoration, with horizontal tooling indent above pad, drawn up and round in a loop, arching above the rim-disk, and pressed onto back of rim-disk and top of fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another unmarvered yellow trail wound spirally six and a quarter times around neck; a third yellow trail, marvered, begun on lower edge of shoulder and wound round on body, tooled into a close-set feather pattern and extending as far as the point of greatest diameter; mingling with it in alternating bands, white trails in eleven vertical panels with alternating upward and downward strokes; below this, a thick white trail would round in a spiral nearly three times; a fine yellow trail wound round edge of , but spout of rim-disk broken and repaired; dulling, pitting, and much of surface covered with creamy white weathering and the rarer shapes of Mediterranean Group II vessels are the tall, slender oinochoe (pitcher/jug) with a trefoil spout and the lentoid aryballos with twisted glass canes running between the ring Glass oinochoe (perfume jug). Eastern Mediterranean or Italian. late 4th–early 3rd century Glass; core-formed, Group II. Hellenistic. Glass
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