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 1/16 in. (24.2 cm); Diam (body): 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm); Diam (handles): 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, trailed decoration

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1303

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Transparent light olive (near 10 Y 5/4). 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 tips of handles and trails drawn back against handles and trails. Hollow rim folded inward and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments, narrowing toward waist then broadening to slight bulge above base. Top of dividing wall recessed into interior. 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 four (for one trail, five) times to form five (six) 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 angle and attached to the looped trail at the left front angle, 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 from back to front, applied 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 right coil of the second tier and attached to the top of the right coil. On body from lower body to upper body, at least 11 revolutions of thin thread applied first downward then upward from right to left, beginning just to the left of the application point of the front left looped trail. Thread decoration added before body was pinched. CLASSIFICATION Double Tube VIIIG2a