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237. Bowl, zarte Rippenschale

Accession Number 2004.20
Dimensions H. 6.5, Diam. rim 8.1, Diam. base 4.5 cm; Wt. 110.38 g
Date First half of the first century CE
Production Area Italy
Material Translucent purple and opaque white glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Free-blown; applied elements
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Condition

Intact. No impurities and very few pinprick bubbles.

Description

Rough, cracked-off, slightly flaring rim; hemispherical body; slightly concave bottom. Around the body, 2 cm below the rim, are 22 unevenly spaced, vertical pinched ribs. A white thread is wound around the vessel from the center of the bottom to just below the rim. Four rotations in the area below the rim, 10 rotations on the ribs (faint between the ribs), and at least two more on the lowest part of the body. An additional thread is applied on the neck and wound three times, continuing the thread that covers the body, which finishes right above the ribs.

Comments and Comparanda

See cat. 236.

Provenance

Giorgio Sangiorgi, Italian, 1886–1965 (Rome, Italy); by 1968–1988, 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. 15, no. 17.

, p. 100, no. 260.

, pp. 94, 98, fig. 67.

Exhibitions

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

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

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