Condition
Intact. Lip is folded over the inside edge. Almost the entire vessel is covered with a weathered layer of iridescent white, silver, and yellow. The inside and much of the outside are also encrusted.
Description
Miniature flask. In-folded, slightly flaring rim; wide, conical neck, constricted at its base; conical body; flat, slightly concave at the center bottom.
Comments and Comparanda
Miniature flasks with conical neck are ascribed to the Syro-Palestinian region, and they are dated to the late third and fourth centuries CE (Hayes, John W. 1975. Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum., pp. 75–76, nos. 266, 267, fig. 9, plate 18; 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. 407, no. 1115; Clairmont, Christoph W. 1963. The Excavations at Dura-Europos Conducted by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters. Final Report 4, Pt. 5. New Haven, CT: Dura-Europos Publications., p. 142, no. 752, plate 36).
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. 212, no. 608.
Exhibitions
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)