288. Baby-Feeder Flask

Condition

Heavy weathering, incrustation, and iridescence have given the vessel a marbled brown and cream-colored appearance. A small chip is missing from the end of the spout.

Description

Fire-polished rim; funnel mouth; long, cylindrical neck; globular body; flat, slightly concave bottom. No pontil mark visible on the bottom. On one side of the body is a small, applied, conical spout.

Comments and Comparanda

In general, on baby feeder flasks (guti), see Isings 1957, p. 118, form 99; on their probable use either as baby feeders or as lamp-fillers, see Antonaras 2017, p. 102, form 53. For this particular form, see Barag 1970a, vol. 2, plate 47, type XXIII:3; Dusenbery 1971, p. 18, no. 20; von Saldern 1974, p. 156, no. 235; Hayes 1975, p. 91, no. 299; Weinberg 1988, p. 79, nos. 341–342.

Provenance

1908, Arnold Vogell, 1857–1911 (Karlsruhe, Germany) [sold, Griechische Altertümer südrussischen Fundorts aus dem Besitze des Herrn A. Vogell, Karlsruhe (Versteigerung), Max Cramer, Cassel, Germany, May 26–30, 1908, lot 865]; 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

Cramer 1908, no. 865, plates 13, 31.

von Saldern et al. 1974, p. 244, no. 712.

Wight 2011, pp. 104, 124, fig. 94.

Exhibitions

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity (Malibu, 2005–2006; 2007; 2009–2010)

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