47. Roman beaker with wheel-cut lines, c.3rd-4th century AD
Glass
Height: 9.3cm
11288 IVP
£ 3,500.00
Free-blown in clear, amber-yellow glass. The walls are nearly straight-sided, with a slight constriction beneath the broken-off, uneven rim, wheel-cut lines decorate the body, the base with shallow indentation. Old...
Free-blown in clear, amber-yellow glass. The
walls are nearly straight-sided, with a slight
constriction beneath the broken-off, uneven
rim, wheel-cut lines decorate the body, the
base with shallow indentation. Old white
rectangular collection label with ‘353’ typed
in black on the body. Intact.
Provenance
Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899), St. Nicholas-les-Arras, France; collection no.353Bellon 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.
Literature
Compare Sotheby's, London, The Constable-Maxwell Collection of Ancient Glass, 4th–5th June 1979, no.232
