Condition
Intact; cream weathering on areas of the exterior.
Description
Straight rim with round edge sloping slightly inward; thick hemispherical body with rounded, convex bottom. On the interior, two deep horizontal grooves, 0.4 cm wide, at 1.1 and 2.2 cm below the rim. On the exterior, three concentric circular grooves, 1, 3.3, and 4.5 cm in diameter, encircle the center of the bottom.
Comments and Comparanda
See comments on cat. 59. Further parallels and discussions on the form include Weinberg, Gladys D. 1970. “Hellenistic Glass from Tel Anafa in Upper Galilee.” Journal of Glass Studies 12: 17–27., p. 21, nos. 12–14; Weinberg, Gladys D. 1973. “Notes on Glass from Upper Galilee.” Journal of Glass Studies 15: 35–36., nos. 9–13; Grose, David Frederick. 1989. Early Ancient Glass: Core-Formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D. 50. New York: Hudson Hills Press., no. 220; Stern, Eva Marianne, and Birgit Schlick–Nolte. 1994. Early Glass of the Ancient World, 1600 B.C.–A.D. 50: Ernesto Wolf Collection. Ostfildern: Gerd Hatje., pp. 290–294, nos. 82–83; Nenna, Marie-Dominique. 1999. Exploration archéologique de Délos 37: Les verres. Paris: de Boccard., pp. 86–87, no. c199; Israeli, Yael. 2003. Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum: The Eliahu Dobkin Collection and Other Gifts. Jerusalem: Israel Museum., p. 77, no. 61; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., p. 68, no. 18.
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
Saldern von, Axel, Birgit Nolte, Peter La Baume, and Thea Elisabeth Haevernick. 1974. Gläser der Antike. Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer. Mainz: von Zabern., p. 95, no. 251.
Exhibitions
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)