Condition
Intact.
Description
In-folded, horizontal rim; wide, cylindrical neck, severely constricted at its base, creating a diaphragm; globular body, standing on a flat bottom. At equal distances around the body are nine pinched, vertical fins. Each fin bears 19–21 horizontal pinches. The fins are of uneven length and unevenly spaced.
Comments and Comparanda
On sprinklers, see cat. 344. For parallels, see Dussart, Odile. 1998. Le verre en Jordanie et en Syrie du sud. Bibliothèque archéologique et historique 152. Beirut: Institut Français d’Archéologie du Proche-Orient., forms BXI.33, BXII.211, 212, 21311, 2132, 22; Israeli, Yael. 2003. Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum: The Eliahu Dobkin Collection and Other Gifts. Jerusalem: Israel Museum., p. 226, nos. 279–280; Neuburg, Frederic. 1949. Glass in Antiquity. London: Art Trade Press., plate XX:70; Negro Ponzi, Mariamaddalena. 1968–69. “Sasanian Glassware from Tell Mahuz (North Mesopotamia).” Mesopotamia 3–4: 293–384., pp. 347–348, no. 51. For sprinkler flasks with snake-thread decoration, see cats. 345–346 and cat. 349.
Provenance
By 1974–1988, Erwin Oppenländer, 1901–1988 (Waiblingen, Germany), by inheritance to his daughter, Ingrid Reisser, 1988; 1988–2004, Ingrid Reisser (Böblingen, Germany), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004.
Bibliography
Saldern von, Axel, Birgit Nolte, Peter La Baume, and Thea Elisabeth Haevernick. 1974. Gläser der Antike. Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer. Mainz: von Zabern., p. 236, no. 691.
Wight, Karol. 2011. Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum., pp. 63, 68, fig. 44.
Exhibitions
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity (Malibu, 2005–2006; 2007; 2009–2010)
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)