Condition
Intact. Some white weathering and iridescence on parts of the exterior; incrustation in areas of the interior.
Description
Fire-polished, rounded rim; funnel mouth; short, cylindrical neck, severely constricted at its base, creating a diaphragm; globular body; slightly concave bottom. At the center of the bottom, an annular pontil mark (W. approx. 1, Th. 0.1 cm) is visible. Eight pinched protuberances are arranged roughly in two rows around the body.
Comments and Comparanda
On sprinklers, see cat. 344. For parallels, see Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., p. 270, no. 420. For examples with multiple rows of pinches, see Auth, Susan Handler. 1976. Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum from the Eugene Schaefer Collection of Antiquities. Newark, NJ: Newark Museum., p. 216, no. 43; Stern, Eva Marianne. 2001. Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass, 10 BCE–700 CE: Ernesto Wolf Collection. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz., p. 248, no. 134; 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., p. 161, type B.XII.211, 214, plate 49:2, 7. For sprinkler flasks of the same form, with pinched fins, see cat. 347.
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. 237, no. 695.
Exhibitions
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)