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: 6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm); Body Diam: 1 1/2 in. (3.9 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1301

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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 toward the waist, run straight, and then curve inward toward a narrow base. The hollow rim is folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The glass is transparent natural grayish-green (10 GY 5/2) with similarly colored translucent handles and thread decoration. The vessel is made of medium thin glass, with small tool marks on the handles and a pontil scar approximately 1.6 cm in diameter. The fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. The body is pinched once lengthwise. Two angular coil side handles are applied to the upper body and attached to the rim. A double-tiered curved basket handle, made from two separate thick coils with U-shaped sections, joins the side handles above the rim. The first tier is M-shaped, applied to the top of the left side handle, curving up over the mouth of the left compartment, touching down to the wall between the compartments, curving up again over the mouth of the right compartment, and attaching to the top of the right side handle. The second tier is horseshoe-shaped, applied to the left side of the M-shaped tier and attached to the right side. Excess glass at both ends of the handles on the upper tier is pinched to form diagonal projections. From just above the base to the edge of the rim, ten revolutions of thread decoration are trailed on from right to left. The thread decoration was applied before the body was pinched.