Condition
Fully preserved; mended.
Description
Fire-polished, flaring rim; wide, bell-shaped body, with cylindrical upper part and concave lower part; convex bottom. The vessel stands on a tall, conical, applied base. A fine trail is wound once at the transition from the rim to the body. An annular pontil mark (W. 1.5, Th. 0.3 cm) is visible at the center of the bottom.
Comments and Comparanda
Acquired with the bowl cat. 247. This shape of beaker is known from several sites, mostly in the western Roman Empire (Isings, Clasina. 1957. Roman Glass from Dated Finds. Groningen: Wolters., p. 51, form 36b; Whitehouse, David B. 1997. Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol. 1. Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass., p. 228, no. 387; von Saldern, Axel. 1980. Glas von der Antike bis zum Jugendstil: Sammlung Hans Cohn, Los Angeles/Cal. = Glass 500 B.C. to A.D. 1900: The Hans Cohn Collection, Los Angeles/Cal. Mainz: von Zabern., p. 118, no. 117; Fünfschilling, Sylvia. 2015. Die römischen Gläser aus Augst und Kaiseraugst. Kommentierter Formenkatalog und ausgewählte Neufunde 1981–2010 aus Augusta Raurica. Forschungen in Augst 51. Augst: Augusta Raurica., pp. 310–311, form AR 42). Furthermore, beakers with a slightly different bell-shaped body but with applied conical base and thread around the neck are known from Milan (Roffia, Elisabetta. 1993. I vetri antichi delle Civiche raccolte archeologiche di Milano. Milan: Comune di Milano., pp. 89, 92, no. 79) and Croatia (Alfano, Carla, ed. 1997. Trasparenze imperiali: Vetri romani dalla Croazia, exh. cat. Milan: Artificio Skira., p. 198, no. 203). Also, very similar beakers with the same body but with folded base are known from Samothrace (Dusenbery, Εlsbeth. 1967. “Ancient Glass from the Cemeteries of Samothrace.” Journal of Glass Studies 9: 34–49., p. 46, no. 42) and Crete (von Saldern, Axel. 1968. Ancient Glass in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts., no. 54) as well as unknown provenances (Auth, Susan Handler. 1976. Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum from the Eugene Schaefer Collection of Antiquities. Newark, NJ: Newark Museum., p. 206, no. 376; Matheson, Susan B. 1980. Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery., p. 42, no. 113; Hayes, John W. 1975. Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum., p. 57, no. 137, fig. 3, plate 10).
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. 573a.
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, 2005–2006; 2007)
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)