78. Bowl (Patella)

Condition

Intact and in good condition, with very few nicks and scratches. Some small areas of white discoloration. The bowl has almost completely discolored to green on both the interior and exterior.

Description

Flaring, horizontal rim with rounded edge; hemispherical body with convex walls; convex bottom; conical base-ring with flat edge.

Comments and Comparanda

This hemispherical bowl belongs to a relatively rare type of Early Roman cast vessel, mainly carinated plates and bowls and rectangular trays, executed in striking colors of single-colored and mosaic opaque glass in the first half of the first century CE (Isings 1957, p. 36, form 20; Grose 1991, pp. 256, 306–307, 314, nos. 415, 422, 426). Parallels from controlled excavations include finds from Herculaneum and Pompeii dated to the Augustan–Tiberian period (Scatozza Höricht 1986, pp. 32–33, plate XIII, form 7; Beretta and Di Pasquale 2004, p. 21, no. 1.32); Taranto, from a context dated between the second and the third quarter of the first century CE (Maraschini 1988, p. 598, no. 41.9f, plate M); Vindonissa, dated to the Tiberian or Tiberian–early Claudian period (Berger 1960, p. 28, no. 43, plates 17, 24); Cologne, dated to the first century CE (Fremersdorf 1958, p. 37, plate 50; La Baume 1973, plate 48, 2 K 5); Trier, dated to about the middle of the first century CE (Goethert-Polaschek 1977, p. 34 n. 88, plate 33, p. 349, form 18).

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

von Saldern et al. 1974, p. 108, no. 286; p. 110, plate no. 286.

Exhibitions

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