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265. Goblet-Stemmed Beaker

Accession Number 2003.444
Dimensions H. 8.3, Diam. rim 8.3, Diam. base 4.7 cm; Wt. 44.86 g
Date Fifth–seventh centuries CE
Production Area Eastern Mediterranean
Material Translucent, slightly greenish glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Free-blown
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Condition

Fully preserved; mended from fragments; iridescence and some areas of incrustation on the exterior; few pinprick bubbles.

Description

Fire-polished, slightly flaring rim; cylindrical body, curving and sloping toward the bottom. The body is standing slightly off-center on a fine, low, cylindrical stem; conical, slightly deformed, pushed-in base, forming a disk foot. No pontil mark is visible on the undersurface of the base.

Comments and Comparanda

See cat. 264.

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

, p. 241, no. 707.

Exhibitions

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity (Malibu, 2009–2010)

Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)