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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DescriptionPontil mark ca. 1.5 cm in diameter; ground off. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles clipped off on one side and drawn back against top of handle on the other side. Transparent natural grayish yellow green. Similarly colored handles. Hollow rim folded inward and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments. Straight walls. Narrow, flattened base. Two curved coil handles applied to upper body ca. 3.5 cm below rim and attached to edge of rim. On body from just below rim to just above base, expanded mold blown curved corrugations from top right to bottom left. Transparent natural grayish yellow green (between 5 GY 7/2 and 10 GY 5/2). Similarly colored handles.