Miniature Oinochoe

Unknown

2nd–3rd century A.D.

Glass

J. Paul Getty Museum

A glass oinochoe, or jug, with a flared rim and a single handle, displays a weathered, iridescent surface with patches of brown, gold, and blue. Free-blown oinochoe of colorless glass. The handle is of pale blue glass and attaches at the rim. The weathered surface gives the vessel an iridescent blue and brown color. von Saldern, Axel, et al. Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer, exh. cat. (Hamburg: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1974), p. 208, no. 588.