Tube on Foot with Looped Trails and Basket Handle

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Tube on Foot with Looped Trails and Basket Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateSixth to early seventh century

DimensionsH: 9 15/16 in. (25.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm); Base Diam: 2 7/16 in. (6.3 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1258

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Some pinprick and oval bubbles in upper body; vertically elongated bubbles in lower body. Transparent natural grayish-green (near 10 GY 5/2, but more yellow). Translucent similarly colored handles, thread, and trails. Free blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.5 cm in diameter. Added thread. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles drawn back against handle. Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Tubular body with downward taper. High pushed-in foot, forming hollow tubular base ring. Four looped trails set at regular intervals around body, applied just above base, touched down to body four times (except for one which is touched down five times) to form four loops, and attached below rim where they are folded outward, upward, and inward over rim to form closed loops. A three-dimensional double-tiered curving basket handle with two parallel cross elements made from two separate coils with U-shaped sections applied to the tops of diagonally opposite looped trails and attached to the tops of the looped trail adjacent to the left; a second tier consists of a single element perpendicular to the lower tier applied to the center of the top of one of the lower coils and attached to the center of the top of the opposite coil. On body between ca. 3.5 cm below rim and application points of handles, at least fifteen revolutions of very thin thread. Point and direction of application cannot be determined. CLASSIFICATION: Single Tube IVG1c.