bell beaker
- Museum number
- 1922,0512.7
- Description
-
Glass bell beaker; translucent amber; squat carinated bowl with pointed base; flaring conical neck; self-coloured horizontal trails and loops.
- Production date
- 6thC-7thC
- Dimensions
-
Height: 12 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager ‘Summary Catalogue’ (draft MS)
Provenance:
Found at Fluy, c. Molliens-Dreuil, arr. Amiens, dép. Somme, France, 1883
Purchased from Messrs Spink & Son, who had acquired it at sale of the Sir John Evans Collection held by Messrs Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, London, 27th April, 1922
Ex collection Sir John Evans, inherited and sold by his son Sir Arthur Evans
Published:
EVANS COLL. 1922. Catalogue of Valuable Antiquities......from the Late Sir John Evans' Collection in the Possession of his Son, Sir Arthur Evans which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge... 27th April. London, p. 10 lot 84, pl. III:84 left
SMITH R.A. 1923. A Guide to the Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic Antiquities in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. London, pp. 51, 146, fig. 192d
VON PFEFFER W. 1952. Zur Typologie merowingerzeitlicher Gläser mit Fadenverzierung, Festschrift des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums in Mainz zur Feier seines hundertjährigen Bestehens 1952, 3 vols, II, Mainz, p. 151
LASKO P. 1965. Prelude to Empire. The Frankish Kingdom from the Merovingians to Pepin, in D. Talbot Rice (ed) The Dark Ages, London, pp. 97-218, pl. 2 centre left
reproduced in LASKO P. 1971. The Kingdom of the Franks. North-West Europe before Charlemagne. London, pl. 31
reproduced in AMENT H. 1980. The Germanic Tribes in Europe, in D.M. Wilson (ed) The Northern World. The History and Heritage of Northern Europe AD 400-1100, London, pl. 12
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1922
- Acquisition notes
- 1883
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1922,0512.7
