Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

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Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateLate fourth to end of fifth century

DimensionsH: 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm); Rim Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm); Body Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1289

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). One similarly colored side handle. One side handle, basket handle, and thread streaky natural green and blue green. Free blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.3 cm in diameter. Added thread. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles drawn back against handles and snapped off. Tool mark at top of basket handle. Hollow rim folded inward and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments, narrowing slightly at waist then broadening to a slight bulge above base. Top of dividing wall recessed slightly into interior. Narrow base. Two angular coil handles applied to center of body and attached to rim; a curved basket handle made from a separate coil with round section applied to top of right side handle and attached to top of left side handle. On body from below rim to above base, seven revolutions of thread trailed on downward from right to left. Thread decoration applied before body was pinched. CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube IIC2a.