Condition
The vessel is intact, with no cracks or breaks, and only a few nicks and scratches. Some weathering and some incrustation. Some small areas of iridescence.
Description
Vertical, smooth, fire-rounded rim; deep convex body decorated with 79 short, vertical ribs, slightly slanting to the left, quite evenly spaced but not uniform in size. Ribs are visible only on the area near the shoulder of the carinated part of the body, starting 1.5 cm below the rim, and range in size from 1.2 to 2.1 cm in length. In the interior, three grooves 0.1 cm thick are visible: one at the center of the bottom and a pair along the circumference of the bottom.
Comments and Comparanda
See also cat. 71. Isings, Clasina. 1957. Roman Glass from Dated Finds. Groningen: Wolters., form 3c; 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., pp. 264–265, nos. 234–237; Israeli, Yael. 2003. Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum: The Eliahu Dobkin Collection and Other Gifts. Jerusalem: Israel Museum., p. 81, no. 71; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., p. 57, no. 23; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2017. Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: First Century BC–Sixth Century AD. Oxford: Archaeopress., pp. 54–56, form 6a.
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., pp. 96–97, no. 256; p. 99, plate no. 256.
Exhibitions
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)