Bulbous Bottle with Three Handles

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Bulbous Bottle with Three Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date4th-5th century CE

DimensionsH: 4 11/16 in. (11.9 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); Body Diam: 3 1/8 in. (8 cm)

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

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1192

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DescriptionMedium thick glass. Medium and large sized (2.0 -4.0 cm) bubbles elongated diagonally in neck and body. Blowing spirals. Transparent natural grayish green (near 10 GY 5/2). Translucent streaky similarly colored coils and handles (appearing olive gray near 5 Y 3/2). Body blown into a one-part patterned mold. Neck and mouth free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.3 cm. Added thread. Excess glass at tips of handles drawn out thin against tops of handles or wall of neck and snapped off. Flaring rim, rounded in flame. Tubular neck with constriction at its base. Gently sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter at center. Concave base. Three curved coil handles applied to shoulder and attached halfway up neck where they are folded upward over neck coil, outward, upward, inward, and pinched to form horizontal projections. Thick rim coil from left to right. Neck coil at center of neck from left to right. On upper two-thirds of body, ca. 40 expanded mold-blown corrugations, curving from top left to bottom right. CLASSIFICATION: Bulbous Bottle I A 2 a with handles I A 2 b.