161. Roman cup, 1st century AD
Glass
Height: 6cm
11289 IVP
Free-blown in coarse greenish glass. Thinly-walled, hemispherical body, a slight pinch to the neck flaring to an everted and cracked-off and polished lip, the base with pontil mark, pushed in...
Free-blown in coarse greenish glass. Thinly-walled, hemispherical body, a slight pinch to the neck flaring to an everted and cracked-off and polished lip, the base with pontil mark, pushed in and a kick. Blue and white old collector's label numbered '788' in pencil on the interior. Intact.
Provenance
Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899), St. Nicholas-les-Arras, France; collection no. 788Bellon 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
Vanderhoeven, Michel, Late Roman and Merovingian glass from the Curtius Museum, International Glass Days, Liège season 19 ADO WE HAVE A SCAN OF THIS?
