Condition
Intact. A few areas of discoloration and iridescence on both the interior and the exterior. Rotary scratches present on the entire vessel, particularly visible on both sides of the bottom.
Description
Flared rim, rounded by grinding and polishing; cylindrical body; small, uneven, flaring base-ring; flat bottom. The bottom has been lathe-cut to form a flared base-ring, a fine ring 1 cm wide, and a boss in the center of the underside. There are two fine, lathe-cut grooves in the rim on the interior.
Comments and Comparanda
This bowl is representative of a quite rare form of cast bowl—usually with truncated conical body, and less often cylindrical—probably produced in Italy between the end of the first century BCE and the first half of the first century CE. Published parallels include: Berger, Ludwig. 1960. Römische Gläser aus Vindonissa. Veröffentlichungen der Gesellschaft Pro Vindonissa IV. Basel: Birkhäuser., pp. 24–27, plates 3, 17, nos. 35–36, from Tiberian contexts; Goldstein, Sidney M. 1979. Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass. Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glas., p. 147, no. 307, plates 19, 39; 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. 254–256, nos. 412–418; Grose, David Frederick. 1991. “Early Imperial Roman Cast Glass: The Translucent Coloured and Colourless Fine Wares.” In Two Centuries of Art and Invention, ed. Martine Newby and Kenneth Painter, 1–18. Occasional Papers from the Society of Antiquaries of London 13. London: Society of Antiquaries of London., pp. 2–11; Bonomi, Simonetta. 1996. Vetri antichi del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria. Corpus delle collezioni archeologiche del vetro nel Veneto 2. Venice: Comitato Nazionale Italiano, AIHV., p. 126 n. 287; Scatozza Höricht, Lucia Amalia. 1995. I vetri romani di Ercolano. Cataloghi. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider., pp. 33, 36, form 11, nos. 45, 46, before 79 CE; Mandruzzato, Luciana, and Alessandra Marcante. 2007. Vetri antichi del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Aquileia: Balsamari, olle e pissidi. Corpus delle Collezioni del Vetro in Friuli Venezia Giulia 3. Venice: Comitato Nazionale Italiano, AIHV., p. 115, no. 359.
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. 108, no. 292; p. 109, plate no. 292.
Wight, Karol. 2011. Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum., pp. 55, 59, fig. 35.
Exhibitions
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity (Malibu, 2005–2006; 2007; 2009–2010)
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)