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 3/4 in. (12.0 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/16 in. (5.3 cm); Body Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)

MediumFree-blown and tooled glass; body blown into a patterned mold.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1270

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DescriptionPontil mark ca. 1.5 cm in diameter; ground off. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles drawn back against tops of handles. Transparent natural grayish-green. Translucent similarly colored handles with opaque red streaks. Hollow rim folded inward and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments, narrowing at waist and broadening toward base. Narrow, flattened base. Two angular coil handles applied to body ca. 4.0 cm below rim and attached to rim where they are folded inward, downward, and upward to form a closed loop; a separate basket handle applied to top of one side handle and attached to top of opposite handle. On body from just below rim to just above base, expanded mold-blown corrugations from top right to lower left. Transparent natural grayish green (5 G 5/2). Translucent similarly colored handles with opaque red streaks. CONDITION: Broken and repaired. COLLECTION: Thomas E. H. Curtis