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
DescriptionThis bulbous bottle with two handles (Bulbous Bottle I A 3 b) is made of thin glass. The glass is transparent dusky yellow (near 5 Y 6/4) with translucent grayish blue green handles, trails, and coils (5 BG 5/2). The fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. It was free-blown, with a pontil mark approximately 1.3 cm in diameter. The coils were added while hot, and the excess glass at the tips of the handles was drawn out against the top of one handle and clipped off on the other.
The rim is folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The tubular neck has a slight bulge above a constriction at its base. The piriform body rests on a pushed-in base. Two angular coil handles with tails are applied to the lower part of the body, trailed up to the base of the neck with thirteen irregular crimps on one side and eleven on the other. They are then bent outward into angular handles and attached to the lower part of the neck over the neck coil. A rim coil is trailed from right to left, while a neck coil of indeterminate direction is present on the lower neck.
3rd-4th century CE
Sixth century
4th-5th century
Sixth to early seventh century
4th-5th century CE
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