Condition
Fully preserved. The weathered surface gives the vessel an iridescent blue and brown color.
Description
Fire-polished, flaring rim, a small part in-folded; ovoid body, gradually tapering along the elongated upper part, which ends smoothly under the rim. A thick coil of transparent bluish glass forms the applied base-ring. The coil handle, of transparent blue glass, starts at the lower body and, forming a high curve, attaches at the rim.
Comments and Comparanda
Jugs of this ovular shape appear in the late second or third century CE (Price, Jennifer, and Sally Cottam. 1998. Romano-British Glass Vessels: A Handbook. Practical Handbook in Archaeology 14. York: Council for British Archaeology., pp. 161–162, fig. 71a), and with small modifications they continue to be in fashion in the fourth century (Isings, Clasina. 1957. Roman Glass from Dated Finds. Groningen: Wolters., pp. 149–150, form 120a; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2017. Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: First Century BC–Sixth Century AD. Oxford: Archaeopress., p. 121, form 83; for dip mold–blown examples, see Antonaras, Anastassios. 2017. Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: First Century BC–Sixth Century AD. Oxford: Archaeopress., p. 120, form 81).
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. 208, no. 588.
Exhibitions
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)