36. Amphoriskos

Condition

One handle restored. Some minor nicks and scratches. One side of the vessel is discolored and iridescent.

Description

Translucent dark green (appearing black) body; opaque white and turquoise decoration. Broad, inward-sloping rim-disk; relatively tall, cylindrical neck; obtuse-angled shoulder; top-shaped body; convex bottom; circular base-knob with a rounded edge. Two dark green vertical strap handles extend from the upper part of the neck to the shoulders.

An unmarvered opaque white thread is wound around the rim. A marvered white thread starts on the shoulder and spirals five times around the shoulders and the upper body, where a marvered opaque turquoise thread is wound twice, and they are both tooled into a zigzag pattern to the middle of the body. Below this a marvered white thread is wound horizontally twice around the body.

Comments and Comparanda

On core-formed amphoriskoi of this period, see comments on cat. 34. For the classification of this particular amphoriskos, see Grose 1989, nontypical example of class I:B, amphoriskos form I:2: pp. 144–146, nos. 97–104.

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

von Saldern et al. 1974, p. 60, no. 132; p. 59, plate no. 132.

Exhibitions

Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)