Double Tube with Side Handles

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Double Tube with Side Handles

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean

Date4th century

DimensionsH: 4 3/4 in. (12.0 cm); Rim Diam: 2 in. (5.1 cm); Body Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)

MediumFree-blown and tooled glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1260

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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled double-tube vessel is made of transparent natural streaky pale green glass (10 G 6/2), with similarly colored handles. The pontil mark, about 1.5 cm in diameter, has been ground off. The body is pinched once lengthwise to form two tubular compartments. Two curved coil handles with tails were added above the base and trailed up the sides with seven irregular crimps on the left and ten on the right. Excess glass at the tips of the handles has been drawn back and snapped off. The rim is hollow and folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The flattened body has straight walls that curve down to a narrow base. Each side handle ends in a decorative loop attached just below the rim, then folded upward and inward over the rim. .