ROMAN GLASS JUG WITH SPOUT
AJAM 041 Jug with spout
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AJAM /Collection of Ancient Glass
Date Late 1st century AD. Origin Northern Black Sea coast (Crimea).
Size ↑ 13.5 cm │ Ø max. 9.4 cm │ Ø feet 5 cm │ Ø rim 2.5 cm │ weight 81 grams.
Technique
Free blown. The footring is formed by further blowing out the body. There are three horizontal wheel engravings around the body.
Description
Transparent green pouring jug, spherical body with a bottom ring formed by a narrowing in the lower part of the body. Short cylindrical neck with a profiled raised lip-shaped rim. The Green Round Handle is pulled up from the shoulder and attached back to the edge with a high curl. Three engravings are applied all around the body. No pontil mark is visible on the flat bottom. On the bottom there is a sticker with “private collection C.A Hessing Holland No.40 “.
Condition
Restored by Sabine. Westerhuis, restoration studio Nieuwe Achtergracht 8 Amsterdam 1999.
Published
1994 Sheppard & Cooper, Glass the Eighth Wonders of the Ancient World, p.12, No. 66.
2001, Bulletin no.80, Antique glass Allard Pierson museum object descriptions, No. 57.
2008, A Collection of Roman Glass, Paul E. Cuperus. p. 104, No.PEC 024.
Provenance
2015 from estate of Paul E. Cuperus Laren (NL).
1998-2009 private collection Paul E Cuperus Laren (NL) coll. No. PEC 024.
1994-1998 private collection C.A Hessing, Blaricum (NL) coll. No. 40.
1994-1992 Sheppard & Cooper Ltd. 11 St George Street, London.
From the 60s to the 80s of the twentieth century in British private collection.
Exhibited
Thermenmuseum Heerlen (NL), Roman Glass borrowed from private collections, exp. No. 64.
29 April – 28 August 2011.
Allard Pierson museum Amsterdam (NL), Antique glass the art of the Fire, exp. No.57.
17 May – 16 September 2001.
References
Ancient Glass in the Hermitage collection, Nina Kunina fig. 135, No. 246.
Les Verres Antiques du Musée du Louvre II, Dulong and Nenna, No. 878.
Anciens and Islamic Glass of the Carnegie museum, S Bergman / A Oliver jr. No. 78.
City of Bristol Museum the Bomford collection, ref : FA 442.
Heraklion Archaeological Museum No. 408.
Place of production and origin
Most of these jugs from the first century of our era were found in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by archaeological research in the Roman metropolises of the originally Greek settlements in the Crimea and the northern coast of the Black Sea. It is probably a local glass production. Scientific research has shown that a number of glassworks were active in this region. The design of these jugs with the typical high handle may have been inspired by the shape of ancient Greek vases.
The first colonization of the Crimean Peninsula takes place between the 8th and 6th century BC by Ionian and Dorian Greeks. The most important cities were founded from the eighth century BC by the city-state of Miletus. Around 438 BC, the Regnum Bospori (Kingdom of Bosphorus) was created. This culture is shaped by its Greek background, mixed and influenced by the local tribes, including the Sarmatians and Scythians. The many hostilities of invading tribes in the second century BC forced the Regum Bospori to seek protection from the kingdom of Pontus, As a result, it was annexed by the Regnum Pontus in 110 BC. During the expansion of the Roman republic, the area of the Regnum Bospori was placed under the authority of Rome from the year 47 BC. After the death of their last king Asandel in 17 BC, the kingdom of Regenum Bospori was declared a Roman vassal state by Emperor Augustus. In the period from 63 to 68, Emperor Nero changed the status of a vassal state to a Roman province, which Emperor Galba reversed in 69.
In the sixties of the first century CE, the Romans built the castrum Charax in the Taurica (Crimea) and installed a naval base in the old port city of Cheasonesos. The high-handled Roman jugs probably date from this period. In the ancient cities of Taurica (Crimea), most of these Roman jugs were found during excavations by Russian archaeologists. In the necropolis northwest of the city of Panticapaeum (Kerch), Roman graves have been examined. A number of these jugs were found here in graves no. 35 and no. 47, two of which are now in the Hermitage collection in St. Petersburg and one in the Louvre Paris museum. The western areas in the delta of the Dnieper River around the city of Olbia (Ukraine) are incorporated into the Roman province of Moesia Inferior around the year 6 AD. A similar jug has also been found in a Roman burial ground in the city of Olbia, this one is also located in the Hermitage collection. These graves date from the first century AD. An equal jug in it Heraklion Archaeological Museum No. 408 which was found in a Roman tomb along with some Roman coins depicting the emperors Vespasian (69-79) and Hadrian (117-138). These medium-sized pouring jugs belong of the Roman table glassware and are used for dressing, vinegar or other liquid additives. The typical pouring mouth is an indication of this, it is present in all jugs found. The production of these jugs runs from the second half of the first to the first half of the second century After this period, the production stops. The technique of pushing the foot out of the body is also no longer used.
FOUR ROMAN GLASS PITCHERS
ANCIENT ROMAN GLASS IN THE ALLAIRE COLLECTION
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Remarks: This is a pictorial post of four objects that look beautiful together. These four pitchers also represent the handles, shapes, base, neck and rim of most Roman glass pitchers. Another interesting point about pitchers made in Roman times is the handles were attached from the rim to the body.
Below is information on the above objects
69R H: 21.1 cm (incl. handle) Date: 4th century
Remarks: This small jug is shaped with a wide body tapering sharply down to a pad foot. The trumpet mouth is decorated with spiral self-trailing, repeated again on the neck. A thick handle laid on at the shoulder raised to the rim terminating with a high loop. Condition is intact.
58R H: 11cm, Date: 4th Century
Remark: Near colorless glass pitcher with flaring rim is of petite proportions standing only 11 cm high. It is decorated with trailing at the rim and base of the neck, the use of darker turquoise glass spirals the body emphasizing the tooled indentations. There is an applied pad base and single handle which is laid on the shoulder and drawn up and attached at the rim. Virtually no weathering has marred the clarity of this little glass pitcher. No similar Roman glass pitcher was found in the literature.
78R Height: 13 cm Date: 3rd C. AD From: Eastern Mediterranean Condition: Intact. Some very light iridescence
Remarks: Pale aquamarine pitcher has a piriform shape widening out to the bottom. The concave base shows a pontil mark. The applied handle reaches from the shoulder up to the mouth ending with a single overlap. The faint dot decoration was formed by first mold blowing then removed and further inflated.
31R Height: 13 cm Date: 1st Century
Remark: The natural color of blue-green glass used on this delicate pitcher has virtually no weathering and appears as it would have looked just after being manufactured in the First Century. The simple ovoid body is accented by a ring base. The precise looped handle is beautifully executed with thin ribs and double fold-over at the mouth.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Best Wishes in the New Year 2034
ROMAN GLASS BEAKER WITH BLUE BLOBS
Beaker with blue blobs of Joop van der Groen
Roman Empire, Eastern Mediterranean Date: 4th century A.D.
Size:↑ 6,8 cm; Ø max. 7,0 cm; Ø rim 7,6 cm; W: 56 G. Technique: Free blown and tooled
Description: Transparent yellowgreen glass, with some earthrests and other smal inclusions. Rim, outsplayed, thickened and cracked off; wall vertically; then curves in to bottom; base plain (Ø 3,0 cm), slightly indented; no pontil mark. About 3 cm below rim the body is decorated with a continuous horizontal band of fifteen small, irregular blue glass blobs.
Condition: Intact with iridescence and some deposit
Provenance: 2013 Archea Ancient Arrt, Amsterdam (TheNetherlands) 2010 – 2013 Private Collection J.Janssen, The Netherlands 2004 – 2010 Private Collection P.E. Coperus, Laren (The Netherlands) 2004 Archeological CentreTel Aviv (Israel)
Remarks: A decoration with blobs was only common during the late Roman period and not only restricted to beakers but also a way of decoration in case of (glass) lamps, bowls, cups and jugs..
Parallels: Glasses of Antiquity Fortuna Fine Arts Ltd. New York (2002), no.105, Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection )Kunina,1997). No.422 Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass – Vol. I (Whitehouse, 1997), no. 376
BEAKERS WITH APPLIED GLASS THREADS (Fadenrippenbecher)
Late Middle Ages glass in central and southern Europe dates from the late 12th C. to early 16th C. The best late Medieval glass was either colorless or almost colorless with a straw tint. It appears that the majority of the glasses were for domestic use as table service.
These are two examples of Fadenrippenbecher.
Date: Early 15th C. before 1456 and Size: H 9.0 cm This example apparently was found in an old well used as a waste shaft. Also, in this same well fragments of very similar vessels were discovered. This picture is on page 291 of the book Phonix aus Sand Und Asche, Glas des Mittlelalters, Erwin Baumgartner & Ongeborg Krueger, Munchen, 1989.
Date: Early 15th C. before 1456 and Size: H 9.5 cm. This picture is on page 291 in the book Phonix aus Sand Und Asche, Glas des Mittlelalters, Erwin Baumgartner & Ongeborg Krueger, Munchen, 1989.
The sizes of this type of beaker differ considerably from a small (examples above) 9 cm in height to 22 cm. The largest ones so far only found in Bohemia and the smaller versions in Northern Germany and The Netherlands.
Description of how these glasses were made: The ribs on these beakers were not mold-blown but consist of applied glass threads of the same glass. The blue decoration on the threads was not created by means of drops of blue glass on these ribs. It was actually created by winding a thread of blue glass around a partially-blown beaker; further blowing then caused the blue thread to break up with pieces only adhering to the ribs. This procedure is schematically shown in Fig. 28 below.
Two fragmentary Fadenrippenbecher have been found, namely in the towns of Groningen and Kampen, The Netherlands
THE NEWARK MUSEUM’S GLASS COLLECTION
The Newark Museum in New Jersey has a wonderful varied glass collections
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- Newark Museum of Art
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- John Ballantine House
The Newark Museumof Art, established as the largest New Jersey museum, invites you to enjoy unforgettable experiences in the arts and natural sciences. Take an inspirational journey through 80 galleries of world-class collections including American, Asian, African and Classical. Part of the Museum is the Ballantine House, a Victorian mansion built in 1885. The size of the glass collection is 2525 objects periods covered 1500BC to present. Most of the ancient glass from 1500 BC Egypt through Greece, Roman and the Islamic cultures through 1200 AD. is the Eugene Schaefer collection. The American glass is located in the Ballantine House. The Newark Museum of Art along with The Ballantine House have been recently renovated and are beautiful to walk through.
Current Exhibitions:
South Gallery, first floor, main building The Museum’s art of the ancient Mediterranean cultures—Egypt, the Near East, Greece and Rome—includes one of the finest collections of ancient glass in the nation as well as classical antiquities that illustrate … Click on the following pictures to enlarge them.
Unexpected Color: A Journey Through Glass features the Thomas N. Armstrong III Collection of Steuben Glass, recently donated to the Newark Museum. The exhibition offers a window into the science, craft, and art of this lesser-known, colorful glass that was made and used by two visionaries. Frederick Carder, co-founder and designer of Steuben Glass Works, Click on the following pictures to enlarge them.
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- Steuben
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- Steuben
Permanent Installations: Glass in The Ballantine House
Additional Ancient Glass from the Eugene Schaefer collection from an older 2016 installation. Click on the following pictures to enlarge them.
ROMAN GLASS TRULLA and LIBATION BOWL
83R Trulla and 84R Bowl of The Allaire Collection
Remarks: This is a pictorial post of two objects that look beautiful together. The color and clarity of the translucent light green glass seem to be the same as well as the time they where made.
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Below is information on the above objects
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83R ROMAN GLASS TRULLA
Date: Late 1st – early 2nd century A.D. Size: H 9.3 cm D 10.5 cm (rim), 9.3 cm (handle) W 113.5 g
Condition:Intact, Handle repaired in two places Classification: Isings (1957), form 75b
Description: Translucent light green glass bowl, ring base and handle. The bowl has an everted rim with rounded outer lip; tubular flange formed by folding at top of side; hemispherical body; applied, outsplayed, low oval base with rounded outer edge; slightly raised edge to concave bottom. The handle applied as a broad flat strap to edge of rim, with small pinched projection on either side, drawn out horizontally with concave side edges, then pinched off with rough surface marks from pincers on top and bottom. Intact, slight dulling, faint iridescence, and patches of weathering on one side of bowl. Evidence of some weathering has been removed. No pontil mark present.
Remarks: Pans with handles were widely used in the Roman world, serving as ritual objects in religious ceremonies (D.Whitehouse 1997) and in sets of vessels for drinking (Hilgers 1969)
References: Whitehouse 1997, Corning Museum, No. 346., Hayes 1975, Ontario Museum, No. 148., Arveiller-Dulong 2005, Louvre Museum, No. 36., Massabò 2001, Aquileia Museum, No. 72., Saldern 1974, Oppenländer Collection, No. 557 (p. 241).
Parallel Trulla: Metropolitan Art Museum On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171 picture below
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84R ROMAN SHALLOW GLASS LIBATION BOWL
Date: 1st Century, Size: H. 4.0 cm., D. (rim) 12.5 cm., (max.) 13.5 cm., W. 102.3 g.
Technique: Mold Blown
Condition: Intact
Description: Shallow bowl decorated with over 100 vertical ribs extending from shoulder to horizontal rib slightly above bottom; below this, second horizontal rib; under base, raised dot at center and three concentric circles.
Remarks: This bronze Greek or Roman bowl (picture below) resembles the Roman shallow glass libation bowl. The ancient Romans also made these shallow bowls out of earthenware for drinking and libations at sacrifices. The English word “libation” derives from the Latin libatio, an act of pouring, from the verb libare, “to taste, sip; pour out, make a libation” In ancient Roman religion, the libation was an act of worship in the form of a liquid offering. Libation bowls were used in ancient Greek (Phiale) and ancient Roman (Patera) rituals to give offerings of wine, honey, or milk to the Gods. A common offering would have been wine mixed with water; this wine would be decanted from a jug or flagon into the phiale and then poured onto the ground in offering to the Gods. The worshipper may have then drunk any remaining wine.
References: Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass Volume II #498, Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum #39, Glases Der Antike Sammlung Ewin Oppenlander #451
THREE MEROVINGIAN GLASS PALM CUPS
Merovingian Glass Palm Cups
from
The Windmill Collection of Ancient Glass
Date 7th Century A.D.
Sizes H = 6.8 cm Dia = 11.7 cm Weight 68 Gr.
H = 6.0 cm Dia = 11.0 cm Weight 56 Gr.
H = 6.5 cm Dia = 11.7 cm Weight 65 Gr.
Classification
Feyeux 2003 type 60; Foy (1995), type 28a; Harden (1956) type X.b
Provenance
Private collections Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Description
Transparent free-blown light blue cups with semi-round body. The flared rim is folded outwards with an extra bend. The walls slope downwards in a gentle curve and then bend inwards to form a round base. Pontil marks under the bottom. Countless small bubbles in the glass.
First, the parison is blown in such a way that a spherical or egg shape is obtained. The glassblower then places it on the pontil and, after heating with iron tongs, spreads the opening further out to obtain a flared profile. The bowl is heated again and pushed down towards the body with tongs and a wooden spatula. The glassblower has then realized a bowl with a hollow or partially hollowed out lip opening (collar edge) over the entire circumference.
Condition
Intact, first one professionally restored by Atelier Van Beemen, Amsterdam (Nl)
Remarks
Old collection labels ‘1871Neuss’, ‘ 1886 Trier’
This type is particularly known from Germany, the Low Countries, Northern France and Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in England.
According to not only Feyeux, but also Rademacher (1942) and Perin (1995), these tumbler cups were mainly made from 600-610 to 650-660, so the 2nd half of the 7th century. Nevertheless, the timeline of these cups, also referred to as palm cups, is somewhat more extensive than previously assumed. For example, numerous specimens have now been found in late 7th century graves in Marseille (France), but also, for example, in Ruyscbno near Perpignan (Foy 1995) from the early 8th century. The latter is also confirmed by finds in Bermersheim (Rhineland) where such a tumbler was accompanied by a coin of the Frankish King Childbert III (695-711). On the other hand, one of the earliest finds is the one from Miesenheim, where this type of cup was accompanied by burial finds from the early 7th century.
Picture by Aad van den Born
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