Condition
Intact; some areas covered with iridescent weathering; very few pinprick bubbles.
Description
In-folded and flattened, flaring rim; conical body; pushed-in base-ring; concave bottom. Pair of crimped coil (pseudo-)handles on opposite sides of the rim. At the center of the bottom is a faint annular pontil mark.
Comments and Comparanda
These conical bowls with the characteristic horizontal, crimped pseudo-handles are widely distributed in both the eastern and western provinces of the Roman Empire. They were produced during the first century CE, and they occasionally appear in the early second century as well; considered to be an Italian product (Isings, Clasina. 1957. Roman Glass from Dated Finds. Groningen: Wolters., p. 59, form 43; Stern, Eva Marianne. 1977. Ancient Glass at the Fondation Custodia (Collection Frits Lugt) Paris. Archaeologia Traiectina 12. Groningen: Wolfers-Noordhoff., pp. 57–58; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2017. Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: First Century BC–Sixth Century AD. Oxford: Archaeopress., p. 59, form 11). Published parallels include Biaggio-Simona, Simonetta. 1991. I vetri Romani: Provenienti dalle terre dell’attuale Cantone Ticino. Locarno: Dadò., vol. 2, no. 176.2.092; Lancel, Serge. 1967. Verrerie antique de Tipasa. Paris: de Boccard., pp. 9, 94, no. 195; Vessberg, Olof. 1952. “Roman Glass in Cyprus.” Opuscula Archaeologica 7: 109–165., p. 116, Β.Ι.β.3; Price, Jennifer. 1992. “Hellenistic and Roman Glass.” In Knossos from Greek City to Roman Colony, Excavations at the Unexplored Mansion II, ed. L. H. Sackett et al., 415–490. London: Thames and Hudson., pp. 431, 450, nos. 224–225; Davidson, G. R. 1952. The Minor Objects. Corinth XII. Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens., p. 80, nos. 612–613, plate 54; von Saldern, Axel. 1980. Ancient and Byzantine Glass from Sardis. Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Monograph 6. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press., p. 21, nos. 94–99; Hayes, John W. 1975. Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum., p. 64, no. 179, fig. 6.194; Auth, Susan Handler. 1976. Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum from the Eugene Schaefer Collection of Antiquities. Newark, NJ: Newark Museum., p. 95, no. 103.
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. 207, no. 584.
Exhibitions
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity (Malibu, 2005–2006; 2007; 2009–2010)
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)