145. Roman torpedo vase, 4th-5th century AD
Glass
Height: 12.2cm
11281 IVP
£ 1,900.00
Further images
Mould-blown pale blue-green glass, of torpedo form with faceted tubular body, a high shoulder and a squat constricted neck with an everted rim and thick irregularly outward folded lip, and...
Mould-blown pale blue-green glass, of torpedo form with faceted tubular body, a high shoulder and a squat constricted neck with an everted rim and thick irregularly outward folded lip, and rounded base. A blue-purple pearlesence to the interior, intact. Old white collector's label with the number '126' printed in black attached to the body.
Provenance
Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899), St. Nicholas-les-Arras, France; collection no.126Bellon 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.
