Condition
Intact; some iridescent weathering on the interior.
Description
Flaring rim, folded out and down to form a collar; cylindrical body, slightly tapering and curving toward the bottom, which is slightly concave. No pontil mark visible on the bottom.
Comments and Comparanda
Acquired with the beaker cat. 258. The shape of the vessel and its rim permit us to hypothesize that it was used as a liner for a metal lamp. There are known parallels from Herculaneum, dated before 79 CE (Scatozza Höricht, Lucia Amalia. 1986. I vetri romani di Ercolano. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider., p. 37, no. 53, form 14b); Zadar (Ravagnan, Giovanna Luisa. 1994. Vetri antichi del Museo Vetrario di Murano. Collezioni dello Stato. Corpus delle collezioni archeologiche del vetro nel Veneto 1. Venice: Comitato Nazionale Italiano, AIHV., p. 192, no. 383); Siphnos, from a grave dated to the first century CE (Mackworth-Young, G. 1949: “Excavations in Siphnos: The Roman Graves of the First Century AD,” BSA 44 (1949), 80–92., pp. 82, 85, plate 28,1); and Cyprus (Vessberg, Olof. 1956. “Glass: Typology-Chronology.” In O. Vessberg and A. Westholm, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition IV.3: The Hellenistic and Roman Period in Cyprus, 128–175, 193–219. Stockholm: Swedish Cyprus Expedition., p. 170, fig. 50, no. 37); and at least two more of unrecorded provenance (Hayes, John W. 1975. Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum., p. 56, no. 131, fig. 3, plate 8; Whitehouse, David B. 1997. Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol. 1. Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass., p. 76, no. 95).
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. 204, no. 573b.
Wight, Karol. 2011. Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum., pp. 103, 117, fig. 86.
Exhibitions
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity (Malibu, 2009–2010)
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)