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oinochoe

Object NameOinochoe

Made FromGlass

Date500-400 BCE

Place MadeMediterranean; probably Rhodes

Techniquetrail decorated and tooled

SizeOverall H: 11.6 cm, Diam: 6.2 cm

Accession Number50.1.6

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Fire and Vine: The Story of Glass and Wine

On ViewGather Gallery

Physical DescriptionOinochoe. Translucent deep blue glass, bubbly with some stone, dull surface with pitting, applied trails of opaque turquoise and opaque yellow glass; core-formed, trail-decorated and tooled. Rounded rim pinched into trefoil mouth with applied heavy trail of turquoise around rim, wall bends down into short neck and out into slightly ovoid globular body with wide register at greatest diameter defined by two yellow trails above and two yellow trails with a central turquoise trail below, all are marvered in, register is filled with alternating turquoise and yellow trails marvered in and alternately dragged up and down forty-nine times; thick flattened coil handle of deep blue glass applied at back of spout and looped high above vessel before being bent down and applied to shoulder, "rivet" of yellow applied on handle strap at body; base formed from original gather diagonally tooled and worked into a pad form with a thin trail of turquoise applied around the edge.
Provenance

Former Collection Steuben Glass, Inc. (American, founded 1903) - 1950