Spherical Bottle with Two Handles

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Spherical Bottle with Two Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Dateabout 4th century CE

DimensionsH: 8 7/8 in. (22.6 cm); Rim Diam: 1 5/16 in. (3.4 cm); Body Diam: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, applied handles, foot and decoration

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1216

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Vertically elongated bubbles in neck, ovoid in body. Black specks in handles. Transparent natural yellowish green (between 10 GY 4/4 and 5 G 5/2). Translucent similarly colored handles, thread, and pad base. Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.8 cm. Added thread. Tooled. Excess glass at tips of handles clipped off and flattened. Rim rounded in flame with tool mark on interior. Tubular neck. Gently sloping shoulder. Spherical body. Pad base with curving tool marks on exterior and interior. Two curving coil handles applied to shoulder and attached to lower part of neck then trailed vertically up neck to rim. Around lower neck, a single neck coil from left to right. Around upper three-quarters of neck ca. 19 revolutions of thread. The point and direction of application cannot be determined.