Condition
In fair condition; has been reassembled. Surface bears patches of iridescence.
Description
In-folded, tubular, flaring rim; cylindrical neck, constricted at its base; pear-shaped body with a constriction on upper third; flat bottom. No pontil mark visible on the bottom.
Comments and Comparanda
Flasks with a constriction at mid-height or at the upper third of their ovular or pear-shaped body are a well-known form mainly in the eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean area, and occasionally in Italy too, during the second half of the first and into the early second century CE; see Vessberg, Olof. 1952. “Roman Glass in Cyprus.” Opuscula Archaeologica 7: 109–165., plate VII:35, 36; Hayes, John W. 1975. Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum., p. 69, no. 2115, fig. 8, plate 16; De Tommaso, Giandomenico. 1990. Ampullae vitreae: Contenitori in vetro di unguenti e sostanze aromatiche dell’Italia romana (I sec. a.C.–III sec. d.C.). Roma: Bretschneider., p. 87, type 76; Dusenbery, Εlsbeth B. 1998. Samothrace: The Nekropoleis. Catalogues of Objects by Categories. Bollingen Series LX.11. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press., p. 1105, nos. S180-3 and 4; Kolonas, Lazaros. 2002. “Τα γυάλινα αγγεία της Πάτρας.” In “Το γυαλί από την αρχαιότητα έως σήμερα,” in Β’ συνέδριο Μαργαριτών Μυλοποτάμου Ρεθύμνης Κρήτης, Μαργαρίτες Μυλοποτάμου, 26–28 Σεπτεμβρίου 1997, ed. P. Themelis, 109–134. Athens: Εταιρεία Μεσσηνιακών Αρχαιολογικών Σπουδών., no. 39; Trakosopoulou, Eleni, 2002. “Glass Grave Goods from Akanthus.” In Hyalos-Vitrum-Glass, 1st International Conference, Rhodes, 2001, ed. George Kordas, 79–89. Athens: Glassnet., p. 84, fig. 11; Adam-Veleni, Polyxeni, and Despoina Ignatiadou, eds. 2010. Gyalinos kosmos / Glass Cosmos. Thessaloniki: Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki., pp. 398, 415, nos. 461, 517; Israeli, Yael. 2003. Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum: The Eliahu Dobkin Collection and Other Gifts. Jerusalem: Israel Museum., p. 210, no. 247; 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., pp. 215–219, 279, nos. 619–634, 838; Mandruzzato, Luciana, and Alessandra Marcante. 2007. Vetri antichi del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Aquileia: Balsamari, olle e pissidi. Corpus delle Collezioni del Vetro in Friuli Venezia Giulia 3. Venice: Comitato Nazionale Italiano, AIHV., p. 93, no. 224; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., p. no. 388.
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. 197, no. 540.
Exhibitions
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)