528. Spacer-Bead

Condition

Intact. Silvery weathering and incrustation.

Description

Elongated spacer-bead, one end straight, raised, and ribbed, and the other rounded. The underside is glossy and slightly convex; the upper side is decorated with a pattern of three volutes, each with a raised dot at the center, depended from a dotted line. The first and third volutes are counterclockwise, and the middle one clockwise. One perforation in straight end; second perforation in the third volute.

Comments and Comparanda

On Mycenaean beads, see cat. 526. For comparanda, see Haevernick [1960] 1981, pp. 71–83; Yalouris 1968, pp. 11–12, figs. 7–11, LH IIIB–C; Harden 1981, p. 46, nos. 56–59; Nightingale 2000, p. 7, type 2.1; Spaer 2001, p. 71, no. 35.

Provenance

By 1974–1988, Erwin Oppenländer, 1901–1988 (Waiblingen, Germany), by inheritance to his daughter, Ingrid Reisser, 1988; 1988–2004, Ingrid Reisser (Böblingen, Germany), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004

Bibliography

von Saldern et al. 1974, p. 91, no. 240.

Walton et al. 2009.

Exhibitions

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