Condition
Pastiche of two different vessels, joined at the bottom of the neck. Exterior partly iridescent; interior covered with incrustation.
Description
In-folded, flattened, flaring rim; cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; cylindrical body tapering toward the bottom; slightly concave bottom. Round mark of a solid pontil (W. 1.2 cm) is visible at the center of the bottom.
Comments and Comparanda
The neck and rim part probably belong to a Roman flask, likely conical with long neck, made in Egypt, that can be dated to the late first–second centuries CE (Edgar, Campbell Cowan. 1905. Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire. Nos. 32401–32800. Graeco-Egyptian Glass. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale., plate VIII, no. 32.640; Harden, Donald Benjamin. 1936. Roman Glass from Karanis Found by the University of Michigan Archaeological Expedition in Egypt, 1924–29. University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series, 41. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press., plate XX, no. 797; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., p. 222, no. 347). The body belongs to an Islamic flask (Lamm, Carl Johan. 1930. Mittelalterliche Gläser und Steinschnittarbeiten aus dem Nahen Osten, I–II. Forschungen zur islamischen Kunst 5. Berlin: D. Reimer., plate 3:36; Scanlon, George T., and Ralph H. Pinder-Wilson. 2001. Fustat Glass of the Early Islamic Period: Finds Excavated by the American Research Center in Egypt, 1964–1980. London: Altajir World of Islam Trust., p. 42, form 17e). Cat. 424 has a quite similar body shape.
Provenance
1979, Edwin A. Lipps, 1922–1988 (Pacific Palisades, California), donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1979
Bibliography
Unpublished
Exhibitions
None