Acquisition number: 7327.14
Cylindrical collared beaker with simple everted rim.
Title: Ridged Tumbler - 73.271.4
Acquisition number: 7327.14
Culture or period: Roman Imperial
Date: c. 1st - 3rd century AD.
Material: Glass
Object type: Vessels - Cup/mug
Origin region or location: France
Origin city: Western Roman Provinces.
Display case or on loan: 9
Keywords: Roman, Imperial, Glass, Gaul, Roman Gaul
Billeter, E. 1969 Glas. Kunstgerwerbermuseum Zurich Sammlungskatalog. Zürich: Kunstgewerbemuseum.
J.W. Hayes, Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum. A Catalogue (Toronto 1975)
D. Whitehouse, Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, i (Corning NY, 1997).
73.271.4 (NGA)
Ridged Tumbler
On loan from the National Gallery of Australia.
Cylindrical collared beaker with simple everted rim. Although scattered examples appear in collections (ROM, Corning, Zurich), this is not a form known from excavations, nor is it in the Musée d'archéologie nationale (Saint-Germain-en-Laye) or any other archaeological collections in France known to the author. If authentic, it is from the western European provinces. Billeter (1969, 33) dated the Zurich example purely on a loose parallel to mould-blown beakers of the first century AD, followed by Hayes (1975, No 139, pl.57) and Whitehouse (2002, 109, No 164). Another is on display in the National Museum of Madrid with a group of glassware without provenance, but broadly dated second to third century AD. The thick-walled fabric is found in Gallo-Roman glass even in the Antonine period, when glass is generally rather thin-walled.
Billeter, E. 1969 Glas. Kunstgerwerbermuseum Zurich Sammlungskatalog. Zürich: Kunstgewerbemuseum.
J.W. Hayes, Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum. A Catalogue (Toronto 1975)
D. Whitehouse, Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, i (Corning NY, 1997).
National Gallery of Australia.
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