Condition
Mended; fully preserved.
Description
Vertical, smooth, fire-rounded rim; shallow convex body decorated with 19 vertical ribs, mildly slanting to the left and relatively evenly spaced. Ribs start 1.5 cm below the rim, and they are visible to the center of the bottom. In the interior, three grooves 0.1 cm thick are visible: two next to each other at the periphery of the bottom (W. 7.1, Th. 0.1 cm) and a small one at the center (W. 1.1, Th. 0.2 cm).
Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of a composite cane of dark blue glass in which a fine, opaque white thread was spiraled two times. The sections were fused together into a single mass, which was slumped over a former mold, and the ribs were formed by tooling while the form was on a rotating base, probably a potter’s wheel.
Comments and Comparanda
For the production technique, see comments on cat. 86. On the trade of small fragments of mosaic glass in nineteenth-century Rome and on the different techniques and classes of mosaic glass present in the Getty collection, see comments on cat. 95. On agate and marbled vessels, see comments on cat. 132. On mosaic glass ribbed bowls, see cat. 133. For direct comparanda, see Isings, Clasina. 1957. Roman Glass from Dated Finds. Groningen: Wolters., pp. 18–19, form 3a; Berger, Ludwig. 1960. Römische Gläser aus Vindonissa. Veröffentlichungen der Gesellschaft Pro Vindonissa IV. Basel: Birkhäuser., pp. 13–16, plates 1:16–17, 2:18; Goethert-Polaschek. Karin. 1977. Katalog der römischen Gläser des Rheinischen Landesmuseums Trier. Trierer Grabungen und Forschungen Band IX. Mainz am Rhein: Zabern., pp. 16–17, nos. 8–9; Follmann-Schulz, Anna-Barbara. 1988. Die römischen Gläser aus Bonn. Cologne: Rheinland Verlag., p. 113, nos. 423, 443, fig. 48; Grose, David Frederick. 1989. 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., pp. 279, 281–282, nos. 291, 300, 305; Tatton-Brown, Veronica, and Carol Andrews. 1991. “Before the Invention of Glassblowing.” In Five Thousand Years of Glass, ed. Hugh Tait, 21–61. London: British Museum Press., pp. 58–59, fig. 67 left; Lazar, Irena. 2003. Rimsko steklo Slovenije. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC., p. 37, form 2.1.4, fig. 11; Boţan, Sever-Petru. 2015. Vase de sticlă în spaţiul dintre Carpaţi şi Prut (secolele II a. Chr.–II p. Chr.) / Glass Vessels between the Carpathian Mountains and the Pruth River (2nd Century BC–2nd Century AD). Cluj-Napoca: Mega., pp. 172–173, plates XXIX:3–4, XXX:1–3, XLVIII:3–4, 6–8; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2017. Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: First Century BC–Sixth Century AD. Oxford: Archaeopress., pp. 54–56, form 6a.
Provenance
By 1974–1988, Erwin Oppenländer, 1901–1988 (Waiblingen, Germany), by inheritance to his daughter, Ingrid Reisser, 1988; 1988–2004, Ingrid Reisser (Böblingen, Germany), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004
Bibliography
Saldern von, Axel, Birgit Nolte, Peter La Baume, and Thea Elisabeth Haevernick. 1974. Gläser der Antike. Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer. Mainz: von Zabern., p. 122, no. 328.
Wight, Karol. 2011. Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum., pp. 42, 47, fig. 26.
Exhibitions
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity (Malibu, 2005–2006; 2007; 2009–2010)
Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples (Los Angeles, 2009)
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)