Bulbous Botlte with Two Handles

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Bulbous Botlte with Two Handles

Place of OriginRoman Empire

Date3rd-4th Century

DimensionsH: 7 3/16 in. (18.3 cm); Rim Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm); Diam (body): 2 3/8 in. (6 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, applied decoration and handles.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1052

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DescriptionThis bulbous bottle with two handles (Bulbous Bottle II A 2 b) is made of thin glass. The glass is transparent dusky yellow (near 5 Y 6/4), with translucent similarly colored handles and spiral thread. The vessel was free blown, with a pontil mark approximately 1.1 cm in diameter. The thread was added while hot, and the excess glass at the tips of the M-shaped handles was drawn back neatly along almost the entire length of each handle. The mouth is circular with an irregular rim rounded in flame. The neck is tubular, decorated with fourteen revolutions of thin thread trailed from below the handle attachment downward, then upward to the rim from right to left. The shoulder is gently sloping. The inverted ovoid body has its greatest diameter below the shoulder. The base is a high pushed-in foot with a tubular base ring. Two M-shaped coil side handles were applied to the shoulder, curved upward, then drawn down and attached to the shoulder near the first application point. The tops of the handles were pinched, drawn inward and downward, and attached to the lower neck.