Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Mediterranean Antiquities, Vol. 1: The Ancient Glass / Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, La collection des antiquités méditerranéennes, Vol. 1: La verrerie antique

269 Pages·2008·9.64 MB·English

by  Beaudoin Caron

foreword i
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,
Collection of Mediterranean Antiquities
1. The Ancient Glass
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal,
La collection des antiquités méditerranéennes
1. La verrerie antique
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Monumenta Graeca
et Romana
Editor-in-Chief
John M. Fossey FRSC (McGill University)
Associate Editor
Angelo Geissen (University of Cologne)
Advisory Board
Christiane Delplace (CNRS, France)
Christine Kondoleon (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Nota Kourou (University of Athens)
Michael Vickers (University of Oxford)
VOLUME 13
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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,
Collection of Mediterranean Antiquities
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal,
La collection des antiquités méditerranéennes
Volume 1
The Ancient Glass
La verrerie antique
By/Par
Beaudoin Caron D ès L
Université de Montréal
†Eléni P. Zoïtopoúlou Lic Phil
Redpath Museum,
McGill University, Montréal
Illustrations
Renée A. Bouchard MA
LEIDEN (cid:129) BOSTON
2008
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Illustration on the cover/Illustration sur la couverture: Grape-cluster vase/Vase en grappe de raisins.
3rd c. C.E./IIIème s. de n. è. (Cat. no. 92 - 2004.214).
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication data
Caron, Beaudoin.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, collection of Mediterranean antiquities / by Beaudoin Caron, Eléni P. Zoïtopoúlou ;
illustrations, Renée A. Bouchard = Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, collection des antiquités méditerranéennes /
par Beaudoin Caron, Eléni P. Zoïtopoúlou ; illustrations, Renée A. Bouchard.
v. cm. — (Monumenta Graeca et Romana, ISSN 0169-8850 ; v. 13)
English and French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: v. 1. The ancient glass
ISBN 978-90-04-16193-1 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Classical antiquities—Catalogs. 2. Musée des beaux-arts de
Montréal—Catalogs. I. Zoïtopoúlou, Eléni P. II. Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. III. Title. IV. Title: Musée des
beaux-arts de Montréal, collection des antiquités méditerranéennes.
DE46.5.M66C37 2008
930.074’71428—dc22
2008008773
ISSN 0169-8850
ISBN 978 90 04 16193 1
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TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE DES MATIÈRES
vii iii
1. Preface – Préface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , v
ix xi
2. Foreword – Avant-propos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,
xiii xxv
3. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,
xxxvii
4. Bibliography and abbreviations – Bibliographie et abréviations . . . . . . .
5. Catalogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
6. Index of donors – Index des donateurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
7. Concordance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
8. Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
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PREFACE
It is a great pleasure to introduce this first volume in a projected series of catalogues raisonnés cov-
ering material in the museum’s permanent collection of antiquities. In the last few years, since the
appointment of Professor John M. Fossey as Curator of Archaeology, the section of Mediterranean
Archaeology has undergone considerable development with new acquisitions, long-term loans and
re-assessment of the previously existing material. The first tangible result was the opening in Feb-
ruary 2004 of a new gallery of specifically Mediterranean Archaeology simultaneously with the
opening of a visiting exhibition in the same field “Tanagra, the small world of clay”. Develop-
ments have proceeded at such a rate that a new version of the gallery is currently in planning for
the immediate future. For a long time before these recent developments, however, the collection of
ancient glass was a principal focus within the Mediterranean Archaeology collection and it is ap-
propriate that the first volume of the catalogues raisonnés should focus on this.
In all his work at the museum since Autumn 2000 John Fossey has been able to gather around
him colleagues and friends with various specialities within the broader field of the ancient Medi-
terranean. The two co-authors of this volume are excellent examples of this approach. Dr. Beau-
doin Caron was, many years ago, briefly a student of John’s and has been his colleague and close
collaborator for a decade while teaching Classical Archaeology at the Université de Montréal. The
late Mme Eléni P. Zoïtopoúlou was John’s wife, a professional archaeologist herself, who served as
consultant in Mediterranean Archaeology since her husband’s appointment to the museum. Eléni
died shortly before the final touches were put to the book but, with the help of Beaudoin Caron,
John has been able to bring the work to completion in the MGR series of which he is the Editor-
in-Chief.
For John Fossey the completion of this volume has been an important testimonial to the work
of his late wife. At the museum we all rejoice in the appearance of this memorial to our lost col-
league and we look forward to the appearance of further volumes in the series, in some of which
we shall undoubtedly see incorporated notes and information which she contributed over the years
to the files for which her husband is responsible. In this way her work will always be with us, in a
form which would surely have given her much personal satisfaction and pleasure.
Nathalie Bondil
Director
Montréal Museum of Fine Arts
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PRÉFACE
Il m’est très agréable de préfacer ce premier volume d’une série de catalogues raisonnés qui visent à
publier les antiquités de la collection permanente du musée. Au cours des dernières années, depuis
l’arrivée au musée du professeur John Fossey, les collections d’archéologie méditerranéennes se sont
considérablement enrichies grâce à de nouvelles acquisitions, des prêts à long terme et une rééva-
luation en profondeur de la collection déjà assemblée. Le premier résultat tangible a été l’ouvertu-
re en février 2004 de la nouvelle galerie consacrée à l’archéologie méditerranéenne, ouverture qui
coïncidait avec l’inauguration d’une exposition temporaire: “Tanagra, le petit peuple d’argile”. Il
fallait cependant que le premier catalogue soit consacré à la verrerie ancienne, qui a toujours été
la principale composante de la collection d’antiquités.
Depuis son arrivée au musée à l’automne 2000, John Fossey a su s’entourer de collègues actifs
dans différents domaines de recherche en archéologie classique. Les deux co-auteurs de ce cata-
logue en font partie. Beaudoin Caron fut brièvement, il y a plusieurs années, un de ses étudiants
et après son arrivée à l’Université de Montréal, un collègue et un collaborateur. Feue Eléni Zoïto-
poúlou était l’épouse de John, elle-même archéologue de carrière et consultante en archéologie mé-
diterranéenne au Musée depuis la nomination de son mari. Elle est décédée alors que le livre était
presque terminé mais, avec l’aide de Beaudoin Caron, John a pu achever l’ouvrage pour la série
MGR dont il est le directeur.
Publier ce volume a été pour John Fossey une façon de rendre témoignage aux travaux et à
l’activité de son épouse, notre collègue disparue. Nous nous réjouissons au musée de sa parution et
de celle à venir des autres volumes de la série où seront incorporées les notes et les informations
de toutes sortes qu’Eléni a fournies pour enrichir les dossiers dont son mari avait la responsabilité.
C’est ainsi, par son travail, qu’elle perpétuera son souvenir parmi nous et c’est ainsi qu’elle aurait
voulu qu’on se souvienne d’elle.
Nathalie Bondil
Directrice
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
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FOREWORD
The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts has long had a collection of Mediterranean Antiquities but,
without a professional archaeologist to curate it, this collection’s development was somewhat spo-
radic, the product of occasional, sometimes quite important donations and of other acquisitions
by purchase when a particularly interesting opportunity presented itself. When appointed in 2000
as the very first Curator of Archaeology at the Museum I had two principal intentions where the
permanent collection was concerned: to make available to the public both by exhibition and by
publication the existing collection and to enrich it as far as might be consistent with international
legal instruments and national legislations. These were, of course, two of the fundamental parts of
the mandate that the Museum and its then Director, Dr. Guy Cogeval, gave me.
It was soon evident that a particular focus of the permanent collection was its holdings in
ancient glass. Accordingly from the very start of my time at the Museum, my late wife (Eléni P.
Zoïtopoúlou), herself a specialist in Greek and Roman Archaeology, undertook the study of this
glass collection and recommended important related bibliographic material for addition to the Mu-
seum’s library. When she was already many months advanced on this project we learned that our
colleague, Dr. Beaudoin Caron, now teaching Classical Archaeology at the Université de Montréal,
had some years earlier, as part of his graduate studies in museology, drawn up a draft catalogue of
a good part of the collection. It was obvious that the two efforts should be combined and accord-
ingly we began to work together as a team, to which was added Renée Bouchard, then a student at
Concordia University and now a doctoral student at the Université de Montréal; her drafting skills
produced the drawings necessary to illustrate some of the more ornate pieces in the glass collec-
tion. It was a more than happy coincidence that Renée was working on Romano-British glass for
her own thesis subject. The four of us, in different combinations and on different occasions, thus
spent many hours during the summer of 2002 re-recording and drawing the material presented
in this volume. To the pieces already covered in Beaudoin Caron’s preliminary catalogue we were
able to add others that had been separately inventoried and yet others that had come from recent
donations. The catalogue here published thus contains all the Museum’s holdings up to late 2004;
it must, however, be noted that we have not considered the Museum’s Islamic glass objects as be-
longing in the category of “ancient”.
Clearly Beaudoin Caron, an internationally recognized scholar in the field of ancient glass stud-
ies, has been the driving force behind the whole project and the rest of us have learned much from
him during our working sessions and subsequent discussions. It is also thanks to his efforts that the
expenses of completing the photographic cover of the material were underwritten by a grant from
his institution, the Université de Montréal (Faculté des Arts et des Sciences), to which we express
our warmest thanks.
It is also Beaudoin Caron who has kept me going with this project in the months following my
wife’s premature death; she would be happy to know that the work was completed but did not live
long enough to see it although only months before her death, while already in hospital, she was
reading and correcting whole parts of the catalogue text.
After the grant from the Université de Montréal was obtained the photographing and printing
was carried out by Christine Guest and we are grateful to her and the other colleagues in the Mu-
seum’s photographic service for their constant interest in our project and their ever-ready collab-
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