Quadruple Tube with Looped Trails and Basket Handle

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Quadruple Tube with Looped Trails and Basket Handle

Place of OriginRome, Palestine

DateSixth to early seventh century

DimensionsH: 10 7/16 in. (26.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm); Diam (handles): 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, trailed decoration

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1312

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Transparent pale green (near 10 G 6/2). Translucent yellowish green handles, trails, and thread. Free blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.5 cm in diameter; ground off. Body pinched twice lengthwise. Added thread. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles and trails folded back against handles and trails. Rim folded upward, inward, and downward. Rectangular body with four tubular compartments in a bundle, narrowing toward waist then broadening toward base. Top of second dividing wall recessed into interior. Flattened base. Four looped trails set at diagonals to divisions of compartments applied to lower body, ca. 3.5 cm above base, touched down to body three times and attached to rim to form four loops. A triple-tiered basket handle made from five coils with U-shaped sections: the first tier consists of two parallel cross-elements applied to the top of diagonally opposite looped trails and attached to the adjacent trail to the left; the second tier consists of two similar parallel cross-elements, arching between the elements of the lower tier, and attached to the upper outside edges of the elements of the lower tier; the third tier consists of a single coil applied to the top of one element of the second tier and attached to the top of the opposite element. On body from beneath lowest application points of one of the looped trails to ca. 2.0 cm below rim, at least 12 revolutions of thin thread trailed on from right to left. Thread decoration applied after body was pinched. CLASSIFICATION Quadruple Tube VIIIG4a