Piriform Bottle with Two Trailed Handles

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Piriform Bottle with Two Trailed Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date4th-5th century CE

DimensionsH: 7 9/16 in. (19.2 cm); Rim Diam: 2 in. (5.1 cm); Body Diam: 3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1193

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DescriptionMedium thick glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Blowing spirals. Transparent to translucent streaky light brown olive (near 5 Y 5/6). Translucent light olive trails, coils, and handles. Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.4 cm. Added coils. Excess glass at tips of handles drawn up along neck and clipped off. Everted rim, rounded in flame. Concave tubular neck merging directly into piriform body. Concave base. Two curved coil handles with tails, applied to lower part of body, trailed up along body with ten irregularly spaced crimps on one side and five on the other to shoulder, bent out into decorative loop handles, and attached to neck coil with an additional irregular crimp above handle on one side. Rim coil and neck coil at shoulder level from left to right. CLASSIFICATION: Piriform Bottle II A 1 a.