Condition
Complete but cracked; heavily weathered and highly iridescent.
Description
Tubular, in-folded, and out-splayed rim; cylindrical neck mildly constricted at its base; globular body with flat bottom. No pontil mark visible on the bottom.
Comments and Comparanda
This flask belongs to a form very widespread in the western and the eastern Mediterranean areas from the late first and into the second centuries CE (Isings, Clasina. 1957. Roman Glass from Dated Finds. Groningen: Wolters., pp. 40–41, form 26a; Stern, Eva Marianne. 1977. Ancient Glass at the Fondation Custodia (Collection Frits Lugt) Paris. Archaeologia Traiectina 12. Groningen: Wolfers-Noordhoff., p. 47, no. 11, plate 2; 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., pp. 39–40, 42–43, 55, forms 4, 5, 7, 27; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2017. Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: First Century BC–Sixth Century AD. Oxford: Archaeopress., p. 147, form 122b).
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. 199, no. 551.
Exhibitions
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)