Single Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

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Single Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine

DateLate 4th to end of 5th 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

Not on View

DescriptionThis vessel is made of medium thin glass. Its original surface cannot be fully determined because of weathering. The glass is transparent natural pale yellowish green (near 10 GY 7/2), with translucent dusky blue-green (5 BG 3/2) thread and handles. It was free-blown, with a pontil mark about 1.2 cm in diameter, which has been ground off. Thread decoration and handles were added, and excess glass at the tips of the handles was snapped or clipped off. The rim is everted, rounded, and partially thickened in the flame. The vessel has a tubular body and a round base that cannot stand. Four angular coil handles are applied over the thread decoration on the upper body, about 2.5 cm below the rim, and attached just below the rim where they are folded inward, upward, outward, and inward to the edge of the rim. A curved basket handle made from a separate coil with a circular section is attached across the top of two side handles. A distorted zigzag decoration appears at the base, continuing upward as fourteen revolutions of thread from left to right. This vessel is classified as a 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).