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291. Jug

Accession Number 2003.377
Dimensions H. 9.4, Diam. rim 3.2, Diam. base 2.8 cm; Wt. 55.89 g
Date Possibly second century CE, probably third–fourth centuries CE
Production Area Probably Italy
Material Opaque blue and white glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Free-blown; applied elements
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Condition

Fully preserved; part of the base and the thread on the shoulder are missing.

Description

Fire-polished rim; conical mouth; cylindrical neck, wider toward the sloping shoulder that leads to the everted conical body; slightly concave bottom. The vessel stands on an applied base-ring made of a thick coil of white glass. Thick, white coil is wound under the rim and a fine thread is wound four times at the transition to the shoulder. A fine, coil handle made of white glass with bluish striation in it is applied on the shoulder and ends on the coil under the rim.

Comments and Comparanda

The shape of the vessel, as well as the applied base and the decorative thread around the neck, are very well known among jugs dated to the third–fourth centuries CE (, p. 152, form 121a; , pp. 125–126, forms 88, 90–92, wherein several parallels are cited). Nevertheless, this small jug shares the colors of several first-century translucent dark blue vessels with opaque white handles, bases, or purely decorative threads and coils, such as kantharos cat. 267, trefoil flask cat. 292, flasks cats. 331–332, and amphoriskos cat. 357 (, p. 70, no. 13; , p. 138, form 112, no. 460, where other parallels are cited).

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. 203, no. 570.

Exhibitions

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