Double Tube with Side Handles with Basket Handle

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Double Tube with Side Handles with Basket Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateSixth to early seventh century

DimensionsH: 7 3/8 in. (18.8 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm); Body Diam: 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1293

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DescriptionTransparent to translucent dark purplish-blue (not in rock color chart). Similarly colored handles and glass from pontil rod. Pontil mark with remains of round pontil wad ca. 1.6 cm in diameter and ca. 0.6 cm thick. Body pinched once, excess glass at tips of handles drawn back against tops of handles. Tool mark at top of basket handle. Medium thin glass. Small and medium-sized vertically elongated bubbles in body, a few burst at surface. Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments, broadening toward greatest diameter above base then curving down to round base. Narrow base. Two double-tiered angular coil handles applied to middle of body, touched down to upper body, and attached to rim with top curve of handle projecting above line of rim; an angular basket handle made from a separate coil with circular section applied to the outside of the top curve of the right side handle and attached to the outside of the top curve of the left side handle. CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube IIE2a.

Published ReferencesArts, P.L.W., "A Collection of Ancient Glass 500 BC - 500 AD," ANTIEK Lochem, 2000, p. 121.