Bulbous Bottle with Four Handles

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Bulbous Bottle with Four Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateSixth century

DimensionsH: 5 13/16 in. (14.8 cm); Body Diam: 2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm); Base Diam: 1 15/16 in. (5 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1213

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Vertically elongated bubbles in neck and body. Transparent natural yellowish green (between 10 GY 4/4 and G 6 5/2). Similarly colored handles and thread. Free blown. Pontil mark ca. 2.1 cm. Tooled. Added thread. Excess glass at tips of handles clipped off and drawn back against handle. Tubular neck with bulge above constriction at its base. Gently sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter at shoulder. Pushed-in foot with hollow tubular base-ring. Four angular coil side handles applied to neck and attached to shoulder. A second tier consists of a single thick continuous coil with circular section, forming arcades above the first tier; the excess glass at the end of the arcade is coiled to form a decorative button. Around neck, at least 12 revolutions of thread trailed upward from left to right. On body, nine shallow elongated indentations resulting from pinching 16 thin vertical ribs, continuing up on neck, to a pattern of X's alternating with pairs of parallel ribs. The handles are attached over the latter. CLASSIFICATION: Multiple handled Bottle Class VE3a-r.