SPANISH GLASS BLUE CUP

133E Spanish Glass Blue Cup of The Allaire Collection

Date: 17th century

Size: D of rim 7.5cm, Hight 9.5cm, Weight empty 124.0g, Weight of water for volume 387.3g

Description: A rare Façon de Venise blue-tinted mug, probably Catalonian. It has a distinctive ‘gorge’ shape with a round body without a foot rim. The cup’s neck is cylindrical, slightly-flared with trailed in white at the rim. The trailed loop handle is applied at the neck and terminating in a hollow bulb at the base.

Provenance: Sotheby’s sale 11 May 1999, lot 68 Private collection, London, Bonhams sale June 5, 2019, 10:30 BST London, Knightsbride, Nov. 2022 Frides Laméris Kunst- en Antiekhandel

ROMAN GLASS JUG WITH COMBED HANDLE

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        The Windmill Collection of Ancient Glass

Date  1^th  – 2^nd Century A.D.  Origin  Rhineland, Germany, Size H- 14.5 cm, D max = 15.0 cm, Weight 89 gr.

Condition: Fully intact, some iridescence.

Description: Transparent jug with globular slightly squat body, free or blown into an open mold. Somewhat convex bottom. The concentric neck narrows upwards from the body and then widens at the rim. A wide ( → max. 4.5 cm) combed (celery) grip is extended from the top of the belly and attached to the neck with a small loop, just below the mouth.

Remarks: Jugs or bottles like these almost certainly served at the Roman table for serving water or wine.

This jug is an example of an early (Cologne) production. Characteristic is the attachment of the combed handle to the neck just below the mouth.  This type of glass normally has a slightly blue-greenish color, a result of the iron oxides in the used quartz or silver sand from the immediate vicinity of Cologne. This material, silicon, mixed with soda as a flux and the addition of lime as a stabilizer together form the basis of the glass.

Early in the 1st and 2nd century AD. the glassblowers succeeded in giving their products a distinct appearance by adding oxides to the main ingredients, such as cobalt for a deep blue color or lead oxide for yellow. But also, for example, manganese for a popular color such as purple. This jug is transparent and almost colorless, which the Romans experienced as a real luxury. This decolorization was achieved by adding (mainly) manganese oxide to the pure sand in only a minimal amount (about 1 percent), a method that was also regularly used in later centuries.

Provenance: 2000 Tyll Kroha (Kölner Münzkabinett), Cologne, Germany, Previously in old private collection Cologne.

Exhibited: 12 November-2011 – 30 January 2012 in Museum Honig Breethuis, Zaandijk (Netherlands), expo no.27

A DAY OF GIVING THANKS FOR OUR MANY BLESSINGS

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated in Canada, the United States, some of the Caribbean islands, and Liberia. It began as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Similarly named festival holidays occur in Germany and Japan. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated as a secular holiday as well.

It is a day to celebrate and give thanks for health, home, family, friends and good food.

ANCIENT GLASS AT THE GRAND CURTIUS MUSEUM IN LIEGE BELGIUM

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The Grand Curtius Museum is a museum of archaeology and decorative arts, located on the bank of the Meuse River in Liège, classified as a Major Heritage of Wallonia. It was built sometime between 1597 and 1610 as a private mansion for Jean Curtius also known as Jean De Corte, industrialist and munitions supplier to the Spanish army.  The museum complex of art and history of the Liège region brings together several museums in one, with prestigious collections showcased in a remarkable scenography. The weaponry, glass, archaeology, decorative art, Mosan art and religious art divisions are grouped in an architectural complex structured around the beautiful inner yards pictured below.

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Pictures by The Windmill Collection of Roman Glass

The glass collection of the Grand Curtius Museum is exceptional. It contains about ten thousand pieces and traces the history of glass from ancient times to the present day. Besides the Roman and Merovingian, they have an outstanding collection of Venetian and façon de Venise-glass. Below are pictures of some the Museum’s glass collection.

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Pre-Roman to Late Roman Glass

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Merovingian Glass

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Examples of  Later Europe Glass

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ROMAN GLASS INDENTED BEAKER

Indented Beaker of Joop van der Groen

Date: Roman Empire, second half of 1st century – 2nd century A.D.

Size:↑ 10,1 cm; Ø max. 5,9 cm; Ø rim 5,7 cm; W: 30 G.

Technique: Free blown, tooled

Classification: Variant of Isings (1957) form 35                                                             

 Description:  Transparent light bluish-green glass. Body rounded outwards, pushed- in to form four vertical indentations, started directly above the base and continuing to about three quarters of the height. The rim is  rounded by polishing. Foot has been pinched out of the glass.  Base slightly indented with pontilmark.

Condition: Intact with some iridescence; the base with two very small cracks

Provenance: 2006 Antiken-Kabinet, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1955 – 2005 Collection Frau Franziska Gassner, Ingelheim, Germany 1955, Art dealer Veel, the Netherlands

Exhibited: From 29-04-2011 till 29-08-2011 in Thermenmuseum in Heerlen (NL) on the exhibition “Roman glass, borrowed out of private property”.

ELEVEN ROMAN GLASS BOWLS

As one of the most versatile of all vessel shapes the bowl was probably the first to have been made by our earliest ancestors.  A bowl is common open-top container used in many cultures to serve food, drinks and for storing other items.  Although other materials such as stone, metal or wood were used to make bowls before and during the Roman period, once glass became popular around the 1^st century glass bowls were manufactured in great abundance.

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The following examples from the Allaire Collection illustrate the many variations in the sizes and shapes of glass bowls created during the Roman period

84R ROMAN SHALLOW GLASS LIBATION BOWL

 

19R Blown then pinched ribbed Roman bowl (https://wp.me/pqEUT-3O2 active link)

27R Free blown technique. Roman glass skyphos with two handles and thumb rests 1st Century from the Allaire Collection.

29R Hofheim cup with wheel-cut lines 1st Century (https://wp.me/pqEUT-36T active link)

39R Egyptian glass bowl 4th Century (https://wp.me/pqEUT-3fo active link)

59R Pale green cup 2-4th Century https://wp.me/pqEUT-We active link)

60R Roman bowl with trail 1st-2nd Century (https://wp.me/pqEUT-SS active link)

61R Small cup (acetabulum) 1st Century (https://wp.me/pqEUT-jN active link)

63R Roman bowl with vertical rim 1st Century (https://wp.me/pqEUT-3ma active link)

65R Roman glass bowl 4th Century (https://wp.me/pqEUT-3HC active link)

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ROMAN GLASS CYLINDRICAL BEAKER

Cylindrical beaker  of Joop van der Groen

Roman Empire, Eastern Mediterrean 2nd half 1st century – 2nd century A.D.  

Size:↑ 9,1 cm; Ø max. 5,6 cm; Ø rim 7,7 cm; W: 51 G.

Technique: Free blown, tooled

Classification: Variant of Isings (1957) form 36b                                                             

Description: Transparent light bkuegreen glass. Straight walls; rim outsplayed with rounded lip. Prominent bulge on 1.5 cm above bottom. Base plain with rest of pontil

Condition: Intact with areas of earth-rests and iridescence.

Provenance: 2006 Antiken-Kabinet, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 1955 – 2005 Sammlung Frau FranziskaGassner, Ingelheim, Germany 1955 Kunsthandel Veel, the Netherlands

Exhibited: From 29-04-2011 till 29-08-2011 in Thermenmuseum in Heerlen (NL) on the exhibition “Roman glass, borrowed out of private property”.