Double Tube with Looped Trails and Basket Handle

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Double Tube with Looped Trails and Basket Handle

Place of OriginRome, Palestine

DateSixth to early seventh century

DimensionsH: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)

MediumTranslucent green glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1302

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DescriptionTwo conjoined cylindrical bodies wrapped with spiral of thin glass thread. Four lateral handles. Superstructure of two pairs of arched handles surmounted by a fifth. Medium thin glass. Vertically elongated bubbles in body. Black specks in handles. Transparent light olive (near 10 Y 5/4). Translucent similarly colored handles, trails, and thread. Free blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.8 cm in diameter. Added thread. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at top of handles and trails drawn back against handles and trails. Hollow rim folded inward and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments narrowing to above waist, then straight to above base where it curves inward. Narrow base. Four looped trails on outside corners of body at an angle to the division between compartments applied above base and touched down to body five (for one trail, six) times, pushed upward to form six (seven) curling loops, and attached to rim. A three-dimensional, triple-tiered curving basket handle made from five coils with U-shaped or flattened sections: the first tier consists of two parallel cross-elements, one applied to the top of the looped trail at the right front corner and attached to the looped trail at the left front corner, the other applied to the top of the looped trail at the rear left corner and attached to the looped trail at the rear right corner; the second tier consists of two similar parallel cross-elements arching on the left side from front to back and on the right side from back to front, and attached to the upper outside edges of the lower elements; the third tier consists of a single coil applied to the top of the left coil of the second tier and attached to the top of the right coil. On body from lower body to upper body, at least 10 revolutions of thin thread applied upward from right to left, beginning beneath application point of rear right trail. Thread decoration applied before body was pinched. CLASSIFICATION Double Tube VIIIG2a

Published ReferencesGunther, Charles F., "How Glass is Made," Toledo Museum News, New Series: vol. 15, no. 1, 1972, repr. p. 15.

Harden, Donald B., "Ancient Glass, III: Post Roman," The Archaeological Journal, vol. 128, 1972, p. 81, 113, repr. pl. Vd.

Riefstahl, Rudolf M., "The Complexities of Ancient Glass," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, repr. (b&w) fig. 8, p. 431.

Lakafsky, Charles, Pottery, Dubuque, 1968, repr. fig. 2, p. 2.

Labino, Dominick, Visual Art in Glass, Dubuque, 1968, repr. (b&w) fig. 13, p. 25.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, OH, 1969, repr. p. 30.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Smith, Ray Winfield, Glass from the Ancient World, The Corning Museum of Glass, 1957, section III, p. 163, no. 338 and 339 (plus figures). Cf. Matheson, Susan, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1980, p. 123.