Condition
Intact; covered with iridescent weathering; encrusted on the interior. Decorative thread has partly fallen off.
Description
Fire-polished rim; slightly everted, cylindrical body curving in toward the pushed-in base-ring. No sign of pontil mark on the bottom. A fine thread was spirally wound 16 times from the bottom to under the rim. It is not preserved anywhere; only traces of its path remain visible on the upper five revolutions.
Comments and Comparanda
This beaker belongs to a long-known, probably Cypriot, vessel form (Vessberg, Olof. 1952. “Roman Glass in Cyprus.” Opuscula Archaeologica 7: 109–165., beaker B.II.γ, p. 123, plate IV:10). Published parallels include Hayes, John W. 1975. Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum., p. 65, no. 186; La Baume, Peter, and Jan Willem Salomonson. 1976. Römische Kleinkunst: Sammlung Karl Löffler. Wissenschaftliche Kataloge des Römisch-Germanischen Museums 3. Cologne: Bachem., no. 158; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., p. 130, no. 177; also, cf. Whitehouse, David B. 2001. Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol. 2. Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass., pp. 145–146, no. 658.
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. 222, no. 649.
Exhibitions
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)