Condition
Intact; iridescence covers the exterior, and black incrustation the interior.
Description
In-folded, tubular, upright rim; wide, cylindrical neck; globular body; slightly concave bottom. The shoulder is smooth, and below it the body is covered by 30 dip mold–blown, S-shaped oblique ribs. There is a mark of a solid pontil (W. 0.8 cm).
Comments and Comparanda
For examples with dip mold–blown oblique ribbing, see von Saldern, Axel. 1974. Glassammlung Hentrich. Antike und Islam. Düsseldorf: Kunstmuseum., p. 90, nos. 281–282, dated in the seventh–ninth centuries CE; with vertical ribs: Clairmont, Christoph W. 1977. Catalogue of Ancient and Islamic Glass. Athens: Benaki Museum., p. 62, plate XI, nos. 196–197; Loudmer, Guy, and A.-M. Kevorkian. 1985. Verres antiques et de l’Islam. Ancienne collection de monsieur D., 3 et 4 juin 1985, sale cat. Paris: Le Galet., p. 242, no. 602, dated in the ninth century CE; Auth, Susan Handler. 1976. Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum from the Eugene Schaefer Collection of Antiquities. Newark, NJ: Newark Museum., p. 232, nos. 537–538; Brosh, Naahma. 2003. “Early Islamic Glass.” In Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum: The Eliahu Dobkin Collection and Other Gifts, ed. Yael Israeli, 325–370. Jerusalem: Israel Museum., p. 353, no. 471, dated in the eighth–tenth centuries CE. For examples with more complex mold-blown decor, see Harden, Donald Benjamin. 1955. “The Glass Found at Soba.” In Peter L. Shinnie, Excavations at Soba, 60–76. Sudan Antiquities Service, Occasional Papers III. Khartoum: Sudan Antiquities Service., pp. 64, 67, no. 26, fig. 37, dated to the ninth–twelfth centuries CE; Harden, Donald Benjamin. 1978. “Glass.” In P. L. Shinnie and M. Shinnie, Debeira West: A Medieval Nubian Town, 83–94. Warminster: Aris & Phillips., p. 87, no. 49, plate II, dated to the tenth–twelfth centuries CE; Kröger, Jens. 1995. Nishapur: Glass of the Early Islamic Period. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art., p. 92, no. 128, dated to the tenth century CE; Goldstein, Sidney M., J. M. Rogers, Melanie Gibson, and Jens Kröger. 2005. Glass: From Sasanian Antecedents to European Imitations. Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art 15. London: Nour Foundation., pp. 104–105, no. 119, cf. also nos. 120, 123, 138.
Provenance
1953, Spink & Son, Ltd., sold to J. Paul Getty, 1953; 1953–1976, J. Paul Getty, American, 1892–1976, upon his death, held in trust by the estate; 1976–1978, Estate of J. Paul Getty, American, 1892–1976, distributed to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1978
Bibliography
Unpublished
Exhibitions
None