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 with black specks in the body and visible blowing spirals. The bottle is made of a dark yellow glass body with dark yellow handles and white decorative thread. The glass is translucent moderate olive brown (near 5 Y 4/4), with similarly colored handles, ring, and attachments. It is free-blown with a pontil mark approximately 1.0 cm in diameter. A spiral thread is added and the handles are tooled; excess glass at the tips of the handles is clipped off. The rim is rounded in flame. The neck is tubular with a horizontal shoulder below. The bulbous body has its greatest diameter below the shoulder. The base appears to be an applied pad base, though its structure is unusual and may indicate that the vessel blew through during manufacture. One coil handle is applied to the lower neck and attached to the upper neck with a ring of glass hanging from it. The second handle consists of three vertical sections applied separately to the shoulder and joined together at the rim with a large irregularly shaped vertical projection acting as a thumb rest. Around the upper neck are at least five revolutions of thin white thread, and just below the shoulder are at least two revolutions of thin thread applied downward from left to right. This form is classified as a Bulbous Bottle II A 1 b.