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A MEROVINGIAN PALE GREEN GLASS PALM CUP
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A MEROVINGIAN PALE GREEN GLASS PALM CUP

CIRCA 6TH CENTURY A.D.

Closed6 July 2022

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A MEROVINGIAN PALE GREEN GLASS PALM CUP
CIRCA 6TH CENTURY A.D.
3 7⁄8 in. (9.8 cm.) diam.

Found in Saint-Martin-le-Noeud, France.
Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899) collection, France; and thence by descent.
Les Antiques de Louis-Gabriel Bellon; Jack-Philippe Ruellan, Hôtel des ventes de Vannes, 4 April 2009, lot 218.

Specialist note

The pattern on the exterior of this delicate palm cup would have been achieved by tooling and marvering an opaque white trail, the ghost of which can still be seen here. See no. 59.1.288 at the Corning Museum of Glass for another palm cup with opaque white trail.