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Catalogue

151. Flask

Accession Number 2003.279
Dimensions H. 5.5, Diam. rim 2.2, Diam. base 2.5 cm; Wt. 50.83 g
Date Early–mid-first century CE
Production Area Probably Italy
Material Translucent 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

Intact; small bits of weathering along a white cane on the exterior and throughout the interior.

Description

Out-turned and flattened rim; short, cylindrical neck, tapering toward the squat, biconical body; flat bottom. From base to rim is a spiral white trail with nine revolutions, which is dragged up four times to create a festoon pattern.

Comments and Comparanda

For the production technique, see comments on cat. 148. For comparanda, 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. 132, no. 367.

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)