Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle (Kohl Tube)
Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle (Kohl Tube)
Artist
Unidentified
Period
Roman Empire
(Ancient Roman, 27 BCE-395 CE)
Period
Byzantine Empire
(Byzantine, 395 CE-1453 CE)
Place of Originpossibly from Hauran, Roman or Byzantine Syria
Datelate 4th-5th century CE
Dimensionshandle: 2 9/16 in.
overall with handle: 5 15/16 × 1 7/8 × 1 11/16 in. (15.1 × 4.7 × 4.3 cm)
overall with handle: 5 15/16 × 1 7/8 × 1 11/16 in. (15.1 × 4.7 × 4.3 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1908.62
Not on View
DescriptionThis double-tube vessel with side and basket handles (Double Tube IIC2a) is made of transparent to translucent light olive-brown glass (between 5 Y 5/6 and 10 Y 5/4), with similarly colored handle. The glass is medium-thin and contains a few medium-sized vertically elongated bubbles in the body and stone inclusions in the handles. Blowing spirals are visible.
The vessel was free-blown and tooled. The body was pinched once lengthwise to form twin compartments. It has a hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward, and a narrow flattened base. A pontil mark approximately 1.5 cm wide has been ground off. Three handles were added: two angular coil handles attached at the shoulder, and one continuous coil forming a basket handle arched over the rim and joined to both compartments. Tool marks are visible where the basket handle was shaped.
Excess glass from the end of the continuous coil was drawn thin and snapped off along the side of the vessel.
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
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