Double Tube with Side Handles

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Double Tube with Side Handles

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean

Date3rd-4th century

DimensionsH: 4 3/4 in. (12.0 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm); Body Diam: 1 9/16 in. (3.9 cm)

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

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1271

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DescriptionThis double-tube vessel was made by free-blowing and tooling glass, with the body blown into a patterned mold. The pontil mark measures approximately 1.5 cm in diameter and has been ground off. The body was pinched once lengthwise to create two tubular compartments. The handles were added separately, with excess glass at the tips clipped off on one side and drawn back against the top of the handle on the other side. The glass is transparent natural grayish yellow green (between 5 GY 7/2 and 10 GY 5/2), with similarly colored handles. The hollow rim is folded inward and downward. The flattened body has straight walls and a narrow, flattened base. Two curved coil handles are applied to the upper body about 3.5 cm below the rim and attached to the edge of the rim. The body shows expanded mold-blown curved corrugations that run diagonally from the top right to the bottom left, extending from just below the rim to just above the base.