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153. Flask

Accession Number 2003.278
Dimensions H. 7.5, Diam. rim 2.2, Diam. base 2.0 cm; Wt. 44.33 g
Date Early first century CE
Production Area Probably Italy
Material Translucent purple 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 elongated pear-shaped body; flat bottom. Free-blown ribbon(?) flask made of three sections, each one decorated with a white thread spiraling in 12 revolutions. The sections were assembled and thereafter free-blown to achieve the shape.

Comments and Comparanda

On slumped and blown vessels, see comments on cat. 148. For other slumped and blown polychrome vessels, see comparanda for cat. 152.

Provenance

Pierre Mavrogordato, Greek, 1870–1948 (Berlin, Germany); 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. 364.

Exhibitions

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity (Malibu, 2005–2006; 2007; 2009–2010)

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