132. Roman juglet, c.1st century AD
Glass
Height: 10cm
11276 IVP
£ 680.00
Free-blown in pale green, transparent glass. Spherical form with a thick fold to the glass at the shoulder of the cylindrical neck, the lip everted and folded-in. A handle drawn...
Free-blown in pale green, transparent glass. Spherical form with a thick fold to the glass at the shoulder of the cylindrical neck, the lip everted and folded-in. A handle drawn from the raised band on the shoulder to the top of the neck, with a folded thumb rest. Intact.
Provenance
Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899), St. Nicholas-les-Arras, France; collection no.480Bellon 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.
