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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DescriptionNatural light green; cylindrical body; four rows of arched handles; body with four vertical rows of looped trails around top of body; double knob at bottom Transparent natural pale green (between 10 G 6/2 and 5 G 7/2). Translucent similarly colored handles, trails, looped border, and thread. Medium thin to thin glass. Vertically elongated bubbles in body. Free blown. Pontil mark 1.1 cm in diameter; ground off. Added coil and thread. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles and trails drawn back against handles and trails. Rim folded inward and downward. Tubular body, tapering downward to double knob base. Four looped trails set at regular intervals around body, applied to lower body, touched down to body four times, and attached to rim to form four irregular loops. A three-dimensional triple-tiered upright looped border above rim made from six coils with circular sections: the first tier consists of two coils, the first applied to the top of one looped trail, touched down to the adjacent trail to the left, and attached to the top of the next trail; the second coil is applied to the top of the trail to which the first coil is attached, touched down to the top of the adjacent trail to the left, and attached to the top of the next trail over the application point of the first coil; the second and third tiers are constructed in a similar manner on top of the previous tier. An angular basket handle applied to the top tier of the upright looped border. On upper body from ca. 2.0 cm below rim, three revolutions of thread trailed on from left to right. The final revolution trails off down body to application point of one looped trail. CLASSIFICATION Single Tube VIG1c

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