Condition
Intact, with light weathering and incrustation.
Description
A continuous ring of dark green (seemingly black) glass, D-shaped in cross section. Fifteen pinched, slanting ribs around the exterior surface.
Comments and Comparanda
For glass bracelets, see comments on cat. 561. For similar ribbed and patterned bracelets, see Antonaras, Anastassios. 2019. The Art of Glass: Works from the Collection of the Museum of Byzantine Culture. Thessaloniki: Museum of Byzantine Culture., pp. 226, no. 323, wherein parallels are cited.
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
Saldern von, Axel, Birgit Nolte, Peter La Baume, and Thea Elisabeth Haevernick. 1974. Gläser der Antike. Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer. Mainz: von Zabern., p. 252, no. 735.
Exhibitions
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)