163. Roman bowl, c.1st century AD
Glass
Height: 4.8cm
11290 IVP
Free blown in greeny-brown transparent glass with striations in the surface to give a monochrome marbled effect. Of hemispherical form with a slightly everted lip and a broken-off and polished...
Free blown in greeny-brown transparent glass with striations in the surface to give a monochrome marbled effect. Of hemispherical form with a slightly everted lip and a broken-off and polished lip, the base slightly pushed in. Intact. With an old blue and white octagonal collector's label inscribed and numbered 'Domart/s.la luce/942' attached to the base.
Provenance
Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899), St. Nicholas-les-Arras, FranceOld label indicating "Dormat… 942"
Bellon 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.
