Single Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

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Single Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateLate fourth to end of fifth century

DimensionsH: 3 15/16 in. (10.0 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/2 in. (3.9 cm); Body Diam: 1 in. (2.6 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1252

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Transparent natural pale yellowish green (near 10 GY 7/2). Translucent dusky blue green (5 BG 3/2) thread and handles. Free blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.2 cm in diameter, ground off. Added thread. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles snapped or clipped off. Everted rim rounded and partially thickened in flame. Tubular body. Round base (cannot stand). Four angular coil handles applied to thread decoration on upper body ca. 2.5 cm below rim and attached below rim where they are folded inward, upward, outward, and inward to edge of rim; a curved basket handle made from a separate coil with circular section applied to the top of one side handle and attached to the top of the opposite handle. On body at base a distorted zigzag, continuing upward with 14 revolutions of thread from left to right. CLASSIFICATION: Single Tube IIC1a.

Published References

Puma R. D. de, Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave, Roma, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2009, no. 186, p. 133.

Exhibition History

Dayton Art Institute, The Roman World: Religions and Everyday Life (featuring the Brooklyn Museum exhibition: Tree of Paradise: Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire), September 21, 2007 - January 6, 2008 (no catalogue).