Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle
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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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled glass vessel, classified as a Double Tube IIE2a, consists of two flattened tubular compartments that narrow toward the waist and then broaden to their greatest diameter before curving down to 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 one side handle in the same color, while the remaining handles are translucent to opaque pale blue (near 5 B 6/2). The vessel is made of medium thin glass with a few small oval and vertically elongated bubbles in the body. The pontil scar is approximately 1.4 cm in diameter.
The body is pinched once lengthwise. Four double-tiered angular coil handles are applied to the middle of the body, touched down below the rim, and attached to the rim. An angular basket handle, made from a separate coil with a circular section, is applied to the top of the left side handle and attached to the side of the right side handle. Excess glass at the tips of the handles is drawn back against the tops of the handles, except on the basket handle where it is drawn down and snapped off, leaving a projection.
Beginning on the lower body and ending beneath the attachment points of the handles, about six revolutions of thread are trailed upward from right to left. The thread decoration was applied before the body was pinched.
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
5th-6th century CE
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
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