Condition
Intact. Some incrustation on the inside.
Description
Flaring, in-folded rim, flattened on top, partly continuing down into the neck; short, cylindrical neck; thick-walled, globular body; flat, slightly concave bottom. Two coil handles are attached to the shoulder and to the sides of the neck, just under the rim.
Comparanda
Isings, Clasina. 1957. Roman Glass from Dated Finds. Groningen: Wolters., form 61; Scatozza Höricht, Lucia Amalia. 1986. I vetri romani di Ercolano. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider., form 40, nos. 112–20; Stern, Eva Marianne. 2001. Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass, 10 BCE–700 CE: Ernesto Wolf Collection. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz., pp. 50, 99, no. 35; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., p. 264, no. 409; Štefanac, Berislav. 2013. “Stakleni aribali iz Jadera / Glass aryballoi from Jader.” Archaeologia Adriatica 7, 163–198., pp. 169–172, groups 3–4, nos. 7–21.
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. 203, no. 565.
Exhibitions
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity (Malibu, 2005–2006; 2007; 2009–2010)
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)