Bulbous Bottle with Four Handles

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Bulbous Bottle with Four Handles

Artist Unidentified

Period Roman Empire (Ancient Roman, 27 BCE-395 CE)

Period Byzantine Empire (Byzantine, 395 CE-1453 CE)

Place of OriginRoman or Byzantine Empire

Date4th-5th century CE

DimensionsGlass Dimensions: 9 11/16 × 1 5/16 × 3 × 2 3/16 in. (24.6 × 3.3 × 7.6 × 5.6 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1908.75

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Small and medium-sized vertically elongated bubbles in neck and body. Blowing spirals. Transparent natural yellowish green (between 10 GY 4/4 and 5 G 5/2). Translucent similarly colored handles, thread, and pad base. Free-blown and tooled. Pontil mark ca. 2.3 cm. Added thread. Excess glass at tips of handles coiled round and drawn back against tops of handles. Rim rounded and thickened in flame with tool mark along part of interior. Tubular neck. Strongly sloped shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter just below shoulder. Pad base with slanting tool mark on interior and exterior. Four angular coil side handles applied to middle of neck and attached to upper body, arcaded on two opposite sides by two separate thick coils with U-shaped sections. On neck from shoulder to rim, 18 revolutions of thread trailed upward from left to right. CLASSIFICATION: Multiple handled bottle VE3b.