Bulbous Bottle with Two Handles

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Bulbous Bottle with Two Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date3rd-4th century CE

DimensionsH: 9 1/2 in. (24.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm); Body Diam: 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm)

MediumGlass; blown in a mold, removed, twisted, free blown, and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1053

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Black specks and some stone in handles. Fabric cannot be further determined because of weathering. Transparent dusky yellow green (near 5 GY 5/2). Translucent grayish green (10 G 4/2) coil and handles. Body blown into a one-part patterned mold, then expanded. Neck and mouth free-blown. Pontil mark ca 1.7 cm. Added thread. Excess glass at tips of handles drawn out thin against top of handle on one side, snapped off on the other. Hollow rim, folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Tall concave neck with constriction at its base. Gently sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter just below shoulder. Concave base. Two angular coil handles applied to shoulder, touched down to neck coil, and attached to rim. On body from shoulder to ca. 2.0 cm above base, ca. thirty indistinct expanded mold-blown corrugations curving from top right to bottom left. Coil around middle of neck from left to right with buckle at point of application. CLASSIFICATION: Bulbous Bottle I D 2 a with handles I A 2 d.