Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

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Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine

Date5th century

DimensionsH: 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm); Diam (rim): 2 in. (5.1 cm); Diam (body): 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1295

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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled glass vessel, classified as a Double Tube IIIC2a, consists of two flattened tubular compartments that narrow slightly toward the waist and broaden to their greatest diameter above a narrow base. The hollow rim is folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The glass is transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2), with similarly colored translucent handles and thread decoration. The vessel is made of medium thin glass with vertically elongated bubbles of various sizes in the body. The pontil mark, approximately 1.9 cm in diameter, has been ground off. The body is pinched once lengthwise. Two curved coil handles and the M-shaped lower tier of the basket handle are formed from one continuous coil with a round section. This coil is applied to the middle of the left compartment, touched down below the rim, folded inward, downward, and upward to form a closed loop, then curved over the mouth of the left compartment, touched down on the wall between compartments, curved up again over the right compartment, touched down to the outside rim of the left compartment where it is folded downward, outward, and upward to form another closed loop, and attached to the middle of the right compartment. The second tier consists of a curved flat basket handle made from a separate coil with a round section, applied to the right side of the M-shaped lower tier and attached to the left side. Excess glass at the tips of the handles is folded back against them. On the lower part of the body, about five revolutions of thread are trailed from right to left, beginning with the bottom revolution. The thread is then pulled up to form about six additional revolutions around the upper part of the body. The thread decoration was applied after the body was pinched.