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

DateSixth to early seventh century

DimensionsH: 7 1/4 in. (18.5 cm); Rim Diam: 2 in. (5.1 cm); Body Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm); L (rod): 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1298

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few small oval and vertically elongated bubbles in body. Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). One similarly colored side handle. The remaining handles are translucent to opaque pale blue (near 5 B 6/2). Free blown. Pontil scar ca. 1.4 cm in diameter. Added thread. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles, drawn back against tops of handles except on basket handle where it is drawn down and snapped off, leaving a projection. Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments, narrowing toward waist then broadening to greatest diameter and curving down to base. Narrow base. Four double-tiered angular coil handles applied to middle of body, touched down below rim, and attached to rim; an angular basket handle made from a separate coil with circular section applied to top of left side handle and attached to side of right side handle. On body, beginning on lower body and ending beneath application points of handles, about six revolutions of thread trailed on upward from right to left. Thread decoration applied before body was pinched. CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube IIE2a.