Tube with Looped Trails, Upright Looped Border and Basket Handle

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Tube with Looped Trails, Upright Looped Border and Basket Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateSixth to early seventh century

DimensionsH: 10 13/16 in. (27.5 cm); Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); Diam (handles): 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, trailed decoration.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1259

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DescriptionThis free-blown, tooled tube-shaped vessel is made of medium thin to thin transparent glass in a natural pale green hue (between 10 G 6/2 and 5 G 7/2). The body contains vertically elongated bubbles. A pontil mark about 1.1 cm wide is present on the base and has been ground off. A coil, thread, and handles were added separately, with excess glass at the tips drawn back against the handles and trails. The rim is folded inward and downward. The tubular body tapers downward into a double knob base. Four looped trails are evenly spaced around the body, each applied to the lower body, touched down to the vessel four times, and attached to the rim to form irregular loops. Above the rim, a three-dimensional, triple-tiered upright looped border is constructed from six coils with circular sections: each tier consists of two coils joined to the top of each trail in a staggered pattern. An angular basket handle is attached to the top tier of the upright looped border. On the upper body, about 2.0 cm below the rim, three revolutions of thin thread are trailed on from left to right. The final revolution trails downward to the attachment point of one of the looped trails. This vessel is classified as Single Tube VIG1c.

Published ReferencesCohen, Robert A., "Origins of the Studio Glass Movement," Glass Studio, no. 32, May 1982, repr. p. 53.