Bulbous Bottle with Two Handles

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Bulbous Bottle with Two Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date4th-5th century CE

DimensionsH: 7 in. (17.8 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); Body Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, applied and tooled decoration and handles.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1054

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DescriptionThin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Transparent natural pale green (5 G 7/2). Translucent moderate blue green handles, trails, and thread (near 5 BG 4/6). Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.6 cm. Added thread. Excess glass at tips of handles clipped off. Rim rounded in flame. Funnel neck with constriction at its base. Bulbous body with greatest diameter above base. High pushed-in foot with hollow tubular base ring. Two triple-tiered looped side handles with crimped trails applied above base, trailed up along side of body to just below constriction of neck with eight crimps on one side and ten on the other, then bent out to form a loop, touched down to lower neck, bent out to form a second loop, touched down to middle of neck, bent out to form a third loop, and attached to rim. Around neck at least twenty revolutions of thin thread trailed on upward from left to right. CLASSIFICATION: Bulbous Bottle I C 1 b.

Exhibition HistoryTampa Museum of Art; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Clearly Inspired: Contemporary Glass and Its Origins, 1999, p. 36, 124.