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Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
V. Evison, 'Glass vessels in England, AD 400-1100', in J. Price (ed.), Glass in Britain and Ireland AD 30-1100, British Museum Occasional Paper 127, London, 2000, pp. 70, 77, group 71.6.
W. Stephens, Early Medieval Glass Vessels Found in Kent, BAR British Series 424, Oxford, 2006, pp. 58-59, nos 6-7.
This rare pair of pouch bottles belongs to Harden's group VII,b that Evison believes not to be continental, like the bell-beaker (lot 187), but rather a local variant of the globular beaker, probably from Kent and possibly even made by one individual glass-blower (Evison, 2000, p. 77). Pouch bottles and globular beakers are often found in pairs. Indeed two plain globular beakers, similar but not identical, were found in another grave (no. 105) at Ozengell, which are in the Powell-Cotton Museum (ibid. 2000, p. 76).
V. Evison, 'Glass vessels in England, AD 400-1100', in J. Price (ed.), Glass in Britain and Ireland AD 30-1100, British Museum Occasional Paper 127, London, 2000, pp. 70, 77, group 71.6.
W. Stephens, Early Medieval Glass Vessels Found in Kent, BAR British Series 424, Oxford, 2006, pp. 58-59, nos 6-7.
This rare pair of pouch bottles belongs to Harden's group VII,b that Evison believes not to be continental, like the bell-beaker (lot 187), but rather a local variant of the globular beaker, probably from Kent and possibly even made by one individual glass-blower (Evison, 2000, p. 77). Pouch bottles and globular beakers are often found in pairs. Indeed two plain globular beakers, similar but not identical, were found in another grave (no. 105) at Ozengell, which are in the Powell-Cotton Museum (ibid. 2000, p. 76).