Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

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Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean

Date3rd-4th century

DimensionsH: 4 11/16 in. (12.0 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); Body Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)

MediumFree-blown and tooled glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1265

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DescriptionThis double-tube vessel is made of transparent natural green glass with similarly colored translucent thread and handles. It was free-blown and tooled. The pontil mark, about 1.6 cm in diameter, has been ground off. The body was pinched once lengthwise to form two tubular compartments that broaden toward their greatest diameter above a narrow, uneven base. The rim is everted and folded inward and downward. Two curved coil side handles were added to the upper body about 3.8 cm below the rim and attached to the rim on one side and below the rim on the other, where the handle was folded upward, outward, and inward to form a closed loop. A basket handle (now missing) was originally attached between the right side handle and the top of the left side handle. On the upper two-thirds of the body, nine revolutions of thread were trailed on upward from right to left. The thread decoration was applied before the body was pinched.