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2. Amphoriskos or Flask

Accession Number 2004.3
Dimensions H. 8.5, Diam. rim 2.3, max. Diam. 4.2 cm; Wt. 52.20 g
Date New Kingdom; 1540–1075 BCE
Production Area Egypt
Material Dark-colored, probably dark green, turquoise, and yellow-white glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Core-formed; applied unmarvered thread
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Condition

Mended, heavily reconstructed, and filled. Discolored from weathering.

Description

Short cylindrical neck; ovular body; convex bottom. Two opposing milky yellow vertical loop handles are modern restoration.

An unmarvered turquoise or translucent light blue thread around the rim. The dark-colored body is decorated with splashes of opaque turquoise and yellow glass.

Comments and Comparanda

No direct parallels are published. The vessel could be a flask (, form I), although it cannot be excluded that it originally had handles (, form II). Probably connected to the production of a workshop active after the Amarna period in an unknown place, during the Ramesside period (Nineteenth–Twentieth Dynasties; thirteenth–eleventh centuries BCE), where single-colored vessels were made alongside thread-decorated vases of workgroup 5 (, pp. 127–129, workshop 6).

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

, p. 12, no. 2.

, p. 19, no. 8.

Exhibitions

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

Meisterwerke der Glaskunst aus internationalem Privatbesitz (Düsseldorf, 1968–1969)