Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

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Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

Place of OriginPalestine

Date6th to early 7th century

DimensionsH: 7 1/4 in. (18.6 cm); Rim Diam: 2 in. (5.1 cm); Body Diam: 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1299

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DescriptionThThis free-blown and tooled glass vessel, classified as a Double Tube IVE2a, consists of two flattened tubular compartments that narrow toward a slight bulge above a narrow base. The hollow rim is folded inward and downward. The glass is transparent natural pale green (near 10 G 6/2), with similarly colored translucent handles and thread, and reddish brown streaks in the handles. The glass is thin, with small bubbles and visible blowing spirals in the body and black specks in the handles. The fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. The pontil mark is approximately 1.6 cm in diameter. The body is pinched once lengthwise. Four double-tiered angular coil handles are applied to the middle of the body on the front, back, and sides. These handles are touched down to the side of the rim and attached at the top, with the upper tiers projecting above the rim. A three-dimensional double-tiered basket handle is made from four coils with circular sections. The first tier consists of one coil applied to the top of the back handle and attached to the top of the front handle, with a crossing element of two coils applied to the tops of the left and right side handles. These cross over each other at the center of the lower coil, with the left half overlapping the right, and fold back to form a decorative knob. The second tier consists of a single coil applied to the top of the left half of the lower tier and attached to the opposite side, topped by a flattened knob made of a short segment of wound coil. Excess glass at the tips of the handles is drawn back against the tops. Five revolutions of very thin thread decoration are trailed from right to left, running from above the base to just below the rim. The thread decoration was applied before the body was pinched.