Double Tube with Side Handles

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Double Tube with Side Handles

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine or Syria

Date4th century

DimensionsH: 5 1/4 in. (13.4 cm); Rim Diam: 2 in. (5.1 cm); Body Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1272

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DescriptionThis double-tube vessel was made by free-blowing and tooling glass. The pontil mark measures approximately 1.1 cm in diameter and has been ground off. The body was pinched once lengthwise to create two tubular compartments. Handles were added separately, with excess glass at the tips folded back against the tops of the handles and pinched flat. The glass is transparent natural green tint; the exact shade cannot be determined because of weathering. The thread is similarly colored, and the two handles are translucent dark blue-green (not in the Munsell Rock Color Chart). The vessel is made from medium thin glass. The hollow everted rim is folded upward, inward, downward, and smoothed. The flattened body narrows slightly toward the waist and ends in a narrow, uneven base. Two angular coil handles are applied to the body about 4.5 cm below the rim and attached to the edge of the rim, where they are folded inward, upward, and pinched to form diagonal projections. On the body, from the rim to the base, eighteen revolutions of thread were applied to the top of the body and trailed on from left to right. The thread decoration was applied before the body was pinched. This vessel is classified as a Double Tube IC2a.