45. Roman carinated beaker, 3rd century AD
Glass
Height: 7.9cm
11292 IVP
£ 3,200.00
Free-blown in transparent pale blue glass. The slightly concave walls have a carinated profile on a projecting annular foot, the lip everted, flaring out from above a delicate thin band....
Free-blown in transparent pale blue glass. The slightly concave walls have a carinated profile on a projecting annular foot, the lip everted, flaring out from above a delicate thin band. An old collection label numbered '247' printed in black attached to the body of the glass. Intact.
Provenance
Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899), St. Nicholas-les-Arras, France; no.247Bellon 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 David Whitehouse, Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Vol.I (New York, 1997), no.387, p.228
