196. Date-Shaped Unguentarium

Condition

Fully preserved; the rim was made complete with a small fill. Some iridescence; few pinprick bubbles.

Description

In-folded, tubular, flaring rim; short, cylindrical neck; body in the shape of a date. Made in a bipartite mold with two vertical sections.

Comments and Comparanda

See cat. 195.

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

von Saldern et al. 1974, p. 174, no. 477.

Stern 1995, p. 92, n. 171.

Wight 2011, pp. 2, 76, 84, fig. 1, fig. 55.

Exhibitions

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

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