Double Tube with Side Handles

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Double Tube with Side Handles

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine or southern Phoenicia

Date4th century

DimensionsH: 4 11/16 in. (11.9 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/8 in. (5.3 cm); Body Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4.0 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1288

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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled glass vessel, classified as a Double Tube IC2a, consists of two flattened tubular compartments that are slightly narrower at the waist and broaden toward a narrow, flattened base. The body has a hollow everted rim folded outward, upward, inward, and then flattened to form a broad brim. The dividing wall between the tubes is deeply recessed into the interior. The glass is transparent natural grayish-green (near 10 G 5/2), with similarly colored translucent handles and thread decoration. The vessel is made of medium thin glass with blowing spirals, one large bubble (2.1 cm) in the lower body, and weathering that makes the fabric difficult to determine. The pontil mark has been ground off. The body is pinched once lengthwise. Two curved coil handles are attached to the upper body about 2.4 cm below the rim and secured to the edge of the rim. Excess glass at the tips of the handles is drawn back against the top on one side and clipped off on the other. Approximately seventeen revolutions of thread decoration are applied below the attachment point of one handle and trailed from left to right down to the base. The thread decoration was added before the body was pinched.