Condition
Intact. Small areas covered by white incrustation.
Description
Trefoil rim with an applied opaque white coil; conical mouth; short, cylindrical neck; globular body; flat bottom. No sign of pontil mark visible on the bottom.
Comments and Comparanda
This vessel appears to be quite rare; the only parallel identical in colors and shape is kept at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh (Oliver, Andrew, Jr. 1980. Ancient Glass in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh. Pittsbourgh, PA: Carnegie Institute., p. 51, no. 36). In general for the shape of the vessel, cf. Isings, Clasina. 1957. Roman Glass from Dated Finds. Groningen: Wolters., form 88b, jugs; Vessberg, Olof. 1956. “Glass: Typology-Chronology.” In O. Vessberg and A. Westholm, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition IV.3: The Hellenistic and Roman Period in Cyprus, 128–175, 193–219. Stockholm: Swedish Cyprus Expedition., p.147, form I.3, β.3.γ, fig. 46:13. Additionally, it can be noted that during the first century CE the use of opaque white glass on translucent blue vessels to form handles and bases or in the shape of purely decorative threads and coils is well represented in the Getty collection, e.g., kantharos cat. 267, jug cat. 291, flasks cats. 331–332, and amphoriskos cat. 357. In addition, for amphoriskoi, see Stern, Eva Marianne. 2001. Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass, 10 BCE–700 CE: Ernesto Wolf Collection. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz., p. 70, no. 13; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2017. Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: First Century BC–Sixth Century AD. Oxford: Archaeopress., 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
Saldern von, Axel, Birgit Nolte, Peter La Baume, and Thea Elisabeth Haevernick. 1974. Gläser der Antike. Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer. Mainz: von Zabern., p. 201, no. 562.
Exhibitions
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)