Condition
Intact; very few nicks and scratches. Some brown discoloration on both the interior and exterior surfaces.
Description
Fire-polished, rounded, everted rim; folded tubular flange below the rim; inverted conical body, slightly convex; solid, pushed-in, and uneven base-ring. At center of the bottom is an annular pontil mark (W. 1.6 cm).
Comments and Comparanda
This form of bowl, with cutout collars below a fire-polished rim, is widely distributed in both the eastern and the western provinces of the Roman Empire. They were produced, possibly in Italy, before 45 CE and continued during the first century CE, occasionally appearing in the second century as well. Similar vessels include Isings, Clasina. 1957. Roman Glass from Dated Finds. Groningen: Wolters., form 69a; Barag, Dan. 1970. “Glass Vessels of the Roman and Byzantine Periods in Palestine.” PhD diss. [in Hebrew], Hebrew University, Jerusalem., vol. 2, plate 31, type 3.10; Czurda-Ruth, Barbara. 1979. Die Römischen Gläser von Magdalensberg. Kärntner Museumsschriften 65; Archäologische Forschungen zu den Grabungen auf dem Magdalensberg 6. Klagenfurt: Landesmuseum für Kärnten., pp. 62–65; Stern, Eva Marianne. 2001. Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass, 10 BCE–700 CE: Ernesto Wolf Collection. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz., pp. 47–48, 84–85, no. 25; Vessberg, Olof. 1952. “Roman Glass in Cyprus.” Opuscula Archaeologica 7: 109–165., pyxis type B:II, plate IX:40–41; Auth, Susan Handler. 1976. Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum from the Eugene Schaefer Collection of Antiquities. Newark, NJ: Newark Museum., no. 97; Whitehouse, David B. 1997. Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol. 1. Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass., pp. 84–86, nos. 115–122; Israeli, Yael. 2003. Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum: The Eliahu Dobkin Collection and Other Gifts. Jerusalem: Israel Museum., p. 120, no. 116; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., pp. 123–124, nos. 138–141.
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. 108, no. 293; p. 109, plate no. 293.
Exhibitions
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)