Condition
Fully preserved; small chip is missing from the underside. Parts covered with milky crust and iridescence; very few pinprick bubbles
Description
Flaring, out-folded rim; conical body; folded, tubular base-ring; flat bottom. At the center of the undersurface there is an annular pontil mark (W. 2.1, Th. 0.3 cm).
Comments and Comparanda
See cat. 243. In addition, compare Harden, Donald Benjamin. 1940–48. “Appendix 1. The Glass.” In Joan du Plat Taylor, “Roman Tombs at ‘Kambi,’ Vasa.” Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 1940–48: 46–60., p. 49, fig. 20:I; Auth, Susan Handler. 1976. Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum from the Eugene Schaefer Collection of Antiquities. Newark, NJ: Newark Museum., p. 95, no. 102; Boosen, Monika. 1984. Antike Gläser: Vollständiger Katalog. Kataloge der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Kassel 11. Kassel: Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen., p. 39, no. 48:1, 2; Kunina, Nina. 1997. The Art Treasures of Russia: Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection. St. Petersburg: State Hermitage/ARS Publishers., p. 311, no. 287; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., p. 111, no. 142.
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. 200, no. 559.
Exhibitions
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)