Condition
Intact. Almost entirely covered with a brownish layer of weathering and iridescence.
Description
Cracked-off, flaring rim; almost globular body, with greatest diameter above midpoint; convex bottom. Six rows of rice-shaped wheel-cut facets decorate the body.
Comments and Comparanda
See comments on cat. 250. On vessels made of decolorized glass, see comments on cat. 251. For close parallels, see Davidson, G. R. 1952. The Minor Objects. Corinth XII. Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens., p. 95, no. 595, plate 6; Isings, Clasina. 1957. Roman Glass from Dated Finds. Groningen: Wolters., pp. 115–116, form 96b; Arveiller-Dulong, Véronique, and Jacques Arveiller. 1985. Le verre d’époque romaine au Musée archéologique de Strasbourg. Paris: La Réunion des musées nationaux., pp. 106–107, nos. 205–206; Fremersdorf, Fritz. 1967. Die Römischen Gläser mit Schliff, Bemalung und Goldauflagen aus Köln. Die Denkmäler des römischen Köln 8. Cologne: Verlag der Löwe., pp. 68–70, 73, 90–93; Sorokina, Nina. 1967. “Das antike Glas der Nordschwarzmeerküste.” In Annales du 4e Congrès International d’Étude Historique du Verre, Ravenne-Venise, 13–20 mai 1967, 67–79. Liège: Edition du Secrétariat général permanent à Liège., p. 72, fig. 3:24–26, fig. 5:12; Šaranović-Svetek, Vesna. 1986. Antičko staklo u Jugoslovenskom Delu Provincije Donje Panonije. Novi Sad: Vojvođanski muzej., p. 58, nos. 9:11–12; Lightfoot, Christopher S. 1993. “Recent Finds of Roman Glass from the Tigris in South-East Turkey.” In Annales du 12e Congrès de l’Association Internationale pour l’Histoire du Verre, Vienne, 26–31 août 1991, 89–98. Amsterdam: AIHV., pp. 90–95, plate 1; Whitehouse, David B. 2001. Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol. 2. Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass., pp. 257–258, no. 440; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2017. Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: First Century BC–Sixth Century AD. Oxford: Archaeopress., pp. 61–62, form 12.2; Weinberg, Gladys D., and Eva Marianne Stern. 2009. Vessel Glass. Athenian Agora XXXIV. Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens., pp. 94–96, nos. 195–200.
Provenance
By 1974–1988, Erwin Oppenländer, 1901–1988 (Waiblingen, Germany), by inheritance to his daughter, Ingrid Reisser, 1988; 1988–2004, Ingrid Reisser (Böblingen, Germany), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004
Bibliography
Saldern von, Axel, Birgit Nolte, Peter La Baume, and Thea Elisabeth Haevernick. 1974. Gläser der Antike. Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer. Mainz: von Zabern., p. 185, no. 511.
Exhibitions
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)