Condition
Fully preserved; mended; small areas of slight weathering.
Description
Fine, in-folded rim; trefoil mouth; wide, cylindrical neck; horizontal shoulder; pear-shaped body, standing on a pushed-in, conical base-ring; concave bottom with a central kick. An annular pontil mark (W. 2.8, Th. 0.12 cm) is visible at the center of the bottom. A wide strap handle with three ribs is applied on the shoulder and ends on the rim, where it folds, forming a thumb-rest tab.
Comments and Comparanda
Jugs with pear-shaped or bulbous body are known from western (Isings, Clasina. 1957. Roman Glass from Dated Finds. Groningen: Wolters., p. 152, form 121a) as well as eastern Roman provinces (cf. Israeli, Yael. 2003. Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum: The Eliahu Dobkin Collection and Other Gifts. Jerusalem: Israel Museum., p. 175, no. 195; Arveiller-Dulong, Véronique, and Marie-Dominique Nenna. 2005. Les verres antiques du Musée du Louvre 2: Vaisselle et contenants du Ier siècle au début du VIIe siècle après J.-C. Paris: Somogy., p. 380, no. 1014; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2017. Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: First Century BC–Sixth Century AD. Oxford: Archaeopress., p. 125, form 88), dated to the third–fourth centuries CE.
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. 211, no. 598.
Exhibitions
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity (Malibu, 2005–2006; 2007; 2009–2010)
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)