Bulbous Bottle on Base Ring with Two Openwork Handles

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Bulbous Bottle on Base Ring with Two Openwork Handles

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

Date4th-5th century CE

Dimensions4 3/16 × 2 3/16 × 1 7/16 × 1 3/8 in. (10.7 × 5.6 × 3.6 × 3.5 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1908.69

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DescriptionThis bulbous bottle (Bottle I C 1 b) is free-blown and tooled from medium thin transparent natural grayish green glass (between 10 GY 5/2 and 5 G 7/2), with translucent dusky blue green handles and thread (5 BG 3/2). It features a tall funnel neck with a tool mark at its base, a gently sloping shoulder, and a rounded rim finished in flame. The deeply concave base is surrounded by a pushed-in hollow tubular base ring. Two side trails, serving as openwork handles, are each formed into three loops. These are applied to the shoulder, touched down twice on the neck, and attached at the rim in a sequence of folded loops. Ten revolutions of thread spiral from just below the rim downward along the neck. The pontil mark at the base measures approximately 1.3 cm. Excess glass at the tips of the handles has been folded back against their tops