40. Amphoriskos

Condition

Fully preserved, with some signs of wear and some discoloration, especially on the neck and upper body. Some nicks and scratches. Whitish remains of the core in the interior.

Description

Opaque dark red body; opaque yellow and turquoise decoration. Broad, inward-sloping rim-disk; tall, cylindrical neck, tapering toward the body; obtuse-angled shoulder; conical body; convex bottom; circular base-knob with a rounded edge. Two red vertical strap handles extend from the shoulders to the upper part of the neck under the rim.

An unmarvered opaque yellow thread is wound around the rim. A wide marvered thread, probably yellow originally, now totally weathered to white, starts on the shoulder and spirals three times around the shoulders and the upper body, where a marvered opaque turquoise thread is wound twice; both were dragged up and down, forming a zigzag pattern. Below this a marvered thread, yellow originally, now completely weathered to white, is wound horizontally three times 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, class I:F, amphoriskos form I:2: pp. 146–48, nos. 104, 109.

Provenance

1908, Arnold Vogell, 1857–1911 (Karlsruhe, Germany) [sold, Griechische Altertümer südrussischen Fundorts aus dem Besitze des Herrn A. Vogell, Karlsruhe (Versteigerung), Max Cramer, Cassel, Germany, May 26–30, 1908, lot 1017]; 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

Cramer 1908, lot 1017.

von Saldern et al. 1974, p. 60, no. 133.

Exhibitions

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