Piriform Bottle with Two Trailed Handles
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
Not on View
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.
4th-5th century
3rd-4th century CE
Late fourth through end of fifth century
4th-5th century CE
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth through end of fifth century
Second half of fourth to early fifth century
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