This little glass cup, if intact, would have looked perfectly appropriate as an example of art-nouveau glasswork at the Salon des Antiquires or the museum of the Nancy School. But this one is truly antique: it's Gallo-Roman, nearly 2,000 years old, and displayed in the Gallo-Roman collections of the Museums of Metz.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Truly Antique
This little glass cup, if intact, would have looked perfectly appropriate as an example of art-nouveau glasswork at the Salon des Antiquires or the museum of the Nancy School. But this one is truly antique: it's Gallo-Roman, nearly 2,000 years old, and displayed in the Gallo-Roman collections of the Museums of Metz.
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