A large Gallo-Roman green glass goblet

4TH CENTURY A.D.

Details

A large Gallo-Roman green glass goblet
4th Century A.D.
On wide flaring folded foot, the base pushed-in with prominent conical point in the interior, the conical body tapering towards a wide straight-sided neck with everted cut-off rim
6¼in. (16cm.) high

Provenance

The base inscribed in white ink "Found at Amiens. Bt of Rollin. June [18]91".
Lt. Gen. A. H. L. F. Pitt-Rivers Collection and formerly in the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham, Dorset.

Lot Essay

This vessel belongs to Morin-Jean's form 110-111 which is found particuarly on 4th Century A.D. sites in Gaul, eg. Vermand, Boulogne-sur-Mer and Amiens (cf. J. M. Morin-Jean, La verrerie en Gaul sous l'empire romain, Paris, 1970 rev. ed., pp. 142-143, figs. 193-194; also C. Isings, Roman Glass from Dated Finds, Groningen/Djakarta, 1957, p. 137, form 109b; and M. Vanderhoeven, "Verres romains tardifs et mérovingiens du Musée Curtius" in Journées Internationales du Verres, Liège, 1958, pp. 45-46, no. 48, pl. 11.

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