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Drawings Glass vase from Amiens, France

Object number

LDSAL2020.42.137

Artist/Designer/Maker

Franks, Augustus Wollaston - Attributed To

Production date

1865

Material

Paper
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 293mm
Width: 402mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Glass Vase found at Amiens
now in the British Museum.
full size.

References

Reference (free text)

Hugh Tait, 'Felix Slade's Forgotten Version of the So-Called Early Christian 'Amiens Chalice', in Chris Entwistle, ed., Through a Glass Brightly: Studies in Byzantine and Medieval Art and Archaeology Presented to David Buckton (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2003), pp. 220-5. Illustration, pl. 13. In this paper, Tait reassesses the provenance of the object, and the evidence for classifying it as Early Christian, and concludes it to be of early nineteenth century manufacture, probably Venetian.

Reference (free text)

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 2nd series 3 (1864-1867): 98-9. A drawing of the vase was exhibited to the Society by A W Franks, together with a similar example in the Felix Slade collection.