Condition
Intact. Whitish weathering, especially present in the depths of the cells.
Description
In-folded, tubular, flaring rim; wide, short, cylindrical neck, constricted at its base to create a diaphragm; spherical body; convex bottom. Neck and rim are free-blown. The mold-blown body is covered with a network of rows of lozenges. The cells are quite uniform in most parts of the body, but along the seam of the mold they are irregular. The mold consisted of two vertical parts, and the vertical seam is visible on the body.
Comments and Comparanda
On sprinkler flasks, see comments on cat. 202. Published parallels include the following: Sorokina 1967, fig. 4:19; Negro Ponzi 1968–69, pp. 341–342, no. 42; Stern, Eva Marianne. 1995. The Toledo Museum of Art. Roman Mold-Blown Glass: The First through Sixth Centuries. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider., pp. 195–196, no. 130; Hizmi, Hananya. 1997. “Two Burial Caves in Rafidiya (Schechem).” ‘Atiqot 32: 45* [English summary], 125–130 [Hebrew]., p. 45, fig. 8:2; Stern, Eva Marianne. 2001. Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass, 10 BCE–700 CE: Ernesto Wolf Collection. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz., p. 244, no. 130; Israeli, Yael. 2003. Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum: The Eliahu Dobkin Collection and Other Gifts. Jerusalem: Israel Museum., p. 223, no. 274; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., p. 83, no. 92.
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
Saldern von, Axel, Birgit Nolte, Peter La Baume, and Thea Elisabeth Haevernick. 1974. Gläser der Antike. Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer. Mainz: von Zabern., p. 174, no. 480.
Exhibitions
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity (Malibu, 2005–2006; 2007; 2009–2010)
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)