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Catalogue

564. Bracelet

Accession Number 2003.459
Dimensions Diam. 5.0, Th. 0.3 cm; Wt. 5.80 g
Date Fourth century CE
Production Area Eastern Mediterranean
Material Semitranslucent dark blue (seemingly black) glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Tooling
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Condition

Intact, with minimal weathering.

Description

A continuous ring of seemingly black glass, D-shaped in cross section. The actual color of the glass is not discernible. The seamless ring is slightly irregular, and there are no signs of painted or other decoration on it.

Comments and Comparanda

See cat. 561.

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

, p. 252, no. 736.

Exhibitions

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