81. Roman amphoriskos, 2nd-3rd century AD
Glass
Height: 8.4cm
11274 IVP
£ 2,800.00
Further images
Free-blown in translucent, light-green glass. The spherical body has a pair of loop handles attached from shoulder to underside of the everted inward-folded lip, with a pad base that is...
Free-blown in translucent, light-green glass.
The spherical body has a pair of loop
handles attached from shoulder to underside
of the everted inward-folded lip, with a pad
base that is slightly pushed in, with tubes of air bubbles inside the fold. Old white
rectangular collection label with ‘512’ typed
in black on the body. Intact, a horizontal
crack around the neck.
Provenance
Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899), St. Nicholas-les-Arras, France; collection no.512Bellon 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.
