Bulbous Bottle with Two Trailed Handles

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Drawing by Timothy Motz for the Toledo Museum of Art, 1995

Bulbous Bottle with Two Trailed Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date4th-5th century CE

DimensionsH: 7 in. (17.8 cm); Rim Diam: 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm); Body Diam: 2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm); Base Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.7 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1056

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DescriptionThis bulbous piriform bottle with two trailed handles (Piriform Bottle I A 1 b with handle type I C 2 a) is made of medium thin glass. The glass is transparent light olive (near 10 Y 5/4) with translucent dusky blue green coils, handles, and trails (near 5 BG 3/2). The fabric cannot be determined because of the presence of numerous black specks at the rim and in the handles and coils. The bottle is free-blown, with a pontil mark about 1.3 cm in diameter. The coils were added while hot, and the excess glass at the tip of each handle is folded back against the top of the handle and pinched flat. The rim is flaring and rounded in flame. The tubular neck has a bulge just above a constriction at its base. The piriform body sits on a pushed-in hollow tubular base ring. Two curved coil handles with tails are applied to the lower part of the body and trailed up the body in eleven irregularly spaced crimps to the base of the neck, then bent outward into decorative loop handles and attached to the neck coil where the ends are folded upward and outward. A rim coil and a neck coil run on the lower part of the neck from right to left.