Double Tube with Freestanding Zigzag

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Double Tube with Freestanding Zigzag

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean

Date4th-5th century

DimensionsH: 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.6 cm); Body Diam: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)

MediumFree-blown and tooled glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1261

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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled double-tube vessel is made of transparent dusky yellow-green glass (near 5 GY 5/2), with a similarly colored applied thread. The pontil mark, about 1.1 cm in diameter, has been ground off. The body was pinched once lengthwise to create two tubular compartments that broaden toward a narrow, flattened base. A freestanding zigzag coil was applied about 2.2 cm below the rim, running from left to right with sixteen segments connecting the upper body to the rim. Below this, the decoration continues down the body as fifteen revolutions of straight thread overlapping the lower part of the zigzag, stopping about 2 cm above the base. The thread decoration was added after the body was pinched. The hollow rim is folded outward, upward, inward, and downward.