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150. Flask

Accession Number 2003.274
Dimensions H. 6.1, Diam. rim 2.0, max. Diam. 5.3, Th. 0.1 cm; Wt. 39.70 g
Date Early–mid-first century CE
Production Area Probably Italy
Material Translucent dark blue and opaque white glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Made from a polychrome disk-shaped blank assembled from fused-together lengths and sections of round mosaic canes; slumped; blown
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Condition

Mended. The surface of the glass is iridescent and pitted, and shows signs of flaking.

Description

Rim mildly flaring; pinched and flattened cylindrical neck with a constriction at its base; squat, bulbous body with a flattened bottom.

The vessel appears to consist of about 20 rods fused together in a pattern—repeating at least seven times—of a wide blue rod flanked by fine white rods. The rods were slumped to form the closed shape of the vessel and tooled at least four times on each side, forming a distinct zigzag pattern.

Comments and Comparanda

On slumped and blown vessel, see comments on cat. 148. On this form of vessel, see comments on cat. 149.

Provenance

By 1974–1988, Erwin Oppenländer, 1901–1988 (Waiblingen, Germany), by inheritance to his son, Gert Oppenländer, 1988; 1988–2003, Gert Oppenländer (Waiblingen, Germany), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003

Bibliography

, p. 130, no. 355.

Exhibitions

Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)