About the Work

Exceptional blue blown-glass urn with an ovoid body resting on a cylindrical base, a flared neck terminating in a flanged rim, and two M-shaped side handles. The urn is accompanied by a circular lid surmounted by a tubular finial with a flattened top.

Provenance

Formerly in the Rosalie Ballantyne collection, acquired from H. A. Liddell, Hexham, in the 1930s, and thence by descent.
Charles Ede Ltd, London.
Christian Levett Collection, Museum of Classical Art in Mougins, acquired in 2012.

Literature

Froehner, Wilhelm. 1879. La verrerie antique: déscription de la Collection Charvet. no. 29, p. 80, pl. XXIV, 101, Le Pecq: Jules Charvet.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1881. Twelfth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Association for eight months ending December 31, 1881. pp. 215–6, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Eisen, Gustavus A. and Fahim Joseph Kouchakji. 1927. Glass: Its Origin, History, Chronology, Technic and Classification to the Sixteenth Century, Vol. 1. p. 152, pl. 9b, New York: W. E. Rudge.

Fremersdorf, Fritz. 1958. Die Denkmäler des römischen Köln: herausgegeben von der Archäologischen Gesellschaft und dem Römisch-Germanischen Museum Köln. Bd. 4: Das naturfarbene sogenannte blaugrüne Glas in Köln, Bd. 4. no. 644, p. 47, Berlin: Archäologischen Gesellschaft und dem Römisch-Germanischen Museum Köln.