Bulbous Bottle with Two Handles
Bulbous Bottle with Two Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date4th-5th century CE
DimensionsH: 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm); Rim Diam: 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm); Body Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm); Base Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1055
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent dusky yellow (near 5 Y 6/4). Translucent grayish blue green handles, trails, and coils (5 BG 5/2).
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.3 cm. Added coils. Excess glass at tips of handles drawn out against top of handle on one side, clipped off on the other.
Rim folded outward; upward, inward, and downward. Tubular neck with slight bulge above constriction at its base. Piriform body. Pushed-in base. Two angular coil handles with tails, applied to lower part of body, trailed up to base of neck, body with thirteen irregular crimps on one side and eleven on the other, then bent out into angular handles and attached to lower part of neck over neck coil.
Rim coil from right to left. Neck coil of indeterminate direction on lower part of neck.
CLASSIFICATION: Bulbous Bottle I A 3 b.
4th-5th century
3rd-4th century CE
Sixth to early seventh century
4th-5th century CE
3rd-4th century
Late fourth through end of fifth century
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