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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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled glass vessel, classified as a Double Tube IIC2a, consists of two flattened tubular compartments that narrow slightly at the waist and broaden to a slight bulge above the base. The top of the dividing wall is recessed slightly into the interior. The hollow rim is folded inward and downward, and the base is narrow. The glass is transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). One side handle matches this color, while the other side handle, the basket handle, and the thread are streaky natural green and blue-green. The vessel is made of medium thin glass with a few bubbles; the fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. A pontil mark approximately 1.3 cm in diameter is present. A tool mark is visible at the top of the basket handle. The body is pinched once lengthwise. Two angular coil side handles are applied to the center of the body and attached to the rim. A curved basket handle, made from a separate coil with a round section, is applied to the top of the right side handle and attached to the top of the left side handle. Excess glass at the tips of the handles is drawn back and snapped off. Seven revolutions of thread decoration are trailed downward from right to left, running from below the rim to just above the base. The thread was applied before the body was pinched.