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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DescriptionThis bulbous bottle with two handles (Bulbous Bottle I D 2 a with handles I A 2 d) is made of medium thin glass. The glass is transparent dusky yellow green (near 5 GY 5/2), with a translucent grayish green (10 G 4/2) coil and handles. The fabric cannot be further determined because of weathering, and the glass contains black specks and some stone in the handles. The body was blown into a one-part patterned mold and then expanded; the neck and mouth were free-blown and tooled. A pontil mark approximately 1.7 cm in diameter is visible. The thread was added while hot, and the excess glass at the tips of the handles was drawn out thin against the top of one handle and snapped off on the other. The rim is hollow, folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The tall neck is concave with a constriction at its base. The shoulder slopes gently, and the bulbous body reaches its greatest diameter just below the shoulder. The base is concave. Two angular coil handles are applied to the shoulder, touched down to the neck coil, and attached to the rim. From the shoulder to about 2 cm above the base, there are about thirty indistinct expanded mold-blown corrugations curving from top right to bottom left. Around the middle of the neck, a coil runs from left to right with a buckle at the application point.