Quadruple Tube with Looped Trails and Basket Handle

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Quadruple Tube with Looped Trails and Basket Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateSixth to early seventh century

DimensionsH: 9 7/8 in. (25.0 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); Body Diam: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1313

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DescriptionYellowish-green (between 10 GY 4/4 and 10 GY 5/2). Similarly colored handles, trails, and thread. Pontil mark ca. 1.3 cm in diameter; ground off. Body pinched twice lengthwise. Added thread. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles and trails drawn back against handles and trails. Medium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Rectangular body with four tubular compartments, narrowing slightly toward waist then broadening toward base. Flattened base. Four looped trails set at diagonals to divisions of compartments applied to lower body just above base, touched down to thread decoration five times (for one trail, six), and attached to rim to form six (seven) irregular loops. 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 just above base to ca. 2.3 cm below rim, at least thirteen revolutions of thick thread applied and trailed upward from left to right. Thread decoration applied after body was pinched. CLASSIFICATION: Quadruple Tube VIIIG4a.