158. Roman indented beaker, Mid 2nd-early 3rd century AD
Glass
Height: 8.8cm
11272 IVP
£ 2,200.00
Free-blown in transparent, colourless glass. Very thin-walled, the four squared-off sides pushed in, a wide mouth beneath which runs a single band of trailing in the same clear glass. The...
Free-blown in transparent, colourless glass. Very thin-walled, the four squared-off sides pushed in, a wide mouth beneath which runs a single band of trailing in the same clear glass. The base pushed in, with a pontil mark and a small cylindrical ring foot. A small square old collection label in white to the base and numbered in black print '224'. Also inscribed 'LT/-' in black ink to the base. Some surface encrustation and minor patches of iridescence. Intact.
Provenance
Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899), St. Nicholas-les-Arras, France; collection no.224Bellon was one of the greatest French collectors of the 19th century. Making his fortune in the textile industry, he began to buy and collect archaeological pieces from the Mediterranean world. Until the end of the 1870s, he accompanied Auguste Ternick in archaeological excavations in the Arras region. It was there that he discovered the Gallo-Roman glassworks which subsequently constituted the most important part of his collection. His collection gained notoriety during the retrospective exhibition of French Art which took place at the Trocadéro in 1896, alongside those of Auguste Dutuit and the Protat printers. Today, part of the collection is kept at the Museum of National Antiquities of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the Petit Palais in Paris, the Louvre Museum, and the Berck-sur-Mer museum.
