6th century AD. A pale blue cup with short stem and broad base; the bowl with black glass applied trails to the upper body; Gaulish workmanship. 45 grams, 89 mm (3 1/2"). From an important Dutch collection; acquired in the 1980s from Nicholas Wright of Kilburn, London, UK (Sir Michael Tippett's assistant); found in an Anglo-Saxon grave in Kent, UK, in the 1970s. Cf. Whitehouse, D. Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, item 430 and similar goblet in the Allaire collection, item 52e from a Frankish grave.

Fine condition, repaired.