On view
Ancient Mediterranean Art
Aryballos (oil container),
late 6th century BCE
Eastern Mediterranean or Greek
Archaic Period to Classical Period, ca. 480–323 BCE, ca. 600–480 BCE
y1959-182
Information
Title
Aryballos (oil container)
Dates
late 6th century BCE
Medium
Opaque, dark blue, yellow, and turquoise glass
Dimensions
h. 5.8 cm, max diam. 5.2 cm (2 5/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Horace Mayer
Object Number
y1959-182
Place Made
Eastern Mediterranean or Greece
Description
Everted rim, finished with a turquoise thread; short neck, spherical body, convex bottom. Pair of small vertical ring handles from upper neck to shoulder that end in long tails. Body and handles of dark blue glass. Pair of horizontal yellow threads wound around shoulder. Yellow and turquoise threads wound spirally around body and dragged up and down to form a feather pattern; below these, a yellow and a turquoise thread wound horizontally. Body bears faint vertical ribbing.
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Formerly in the Havermeyer Collection; given to the Museum by Horace Mayer
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"Recent acquisitions", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 20, no. 1 (1961): p. 24-27.
, p. 25 - Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 29 (illus.)
- Anastassios Antonaras, Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2012), cat. no. 504 (illus.)
