Bulbous Bottle with Two Handles

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Bulbous Bottle with Two Handles

Place of OriginRome

Dateabout 3rd-4th century CE

MediumGlass; free blown; applied decoration and handles

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1057

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Black specks in body. Blowing spirals. Dark yellow body; dark yellow handles, white decoration, cylindrical neck, with applied white spiral thread; on one side tripart handle extends from rim to shoulder, with thumb rest; on opposite side, smaller handle extends from top to bottom of neck; applied pad base. Translucent moderate olive brown (near 5 Y 4/4). Similarly colored handles, ring, and attachment. Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.0 cm. Added thread. Tooled. Excess glass at tips of handles clipped off. Rim rounded in flame. Tubular neck. Horizontal shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter below shoulder. Pad base (?). Two coil handles: one applied to lower neck and attached to upper neck with ring of glass hanging from it; the second consists of three vertical sections applied separately to shoulder and attached together to rim with large irregularly shaped vertical projection. Around upper neck, at least five revolutions of thin thread, point and direction of application cannot be determined. Around body just below shoulder, at least two revolutions of thin thread applied downward from left to right. CLASSIFICATION Bulbous Bottle II A 1 b