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: 6 11/16 in. (17.0 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm); Body Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.4 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1314

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few vertically elongated bubbles in body. Transparent natural grayish green (near 10 GY 5/2, but slightly more yellow). Translucent similarly colored handle, trails, and thread. Free blown. Pontil mark with remains of pontil wad ca. 1.8 cm in diameter. Body pinched twice lengthwise. Added thread. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handle and trails drawn back against tops of handle and trails. Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Rectangular body with four tubular compartments in a bundle. Sides narrow to base. Wall between two tubes recessed deep into interior. Flattened base. Four looped trails, set at diagonals to divisions of compartments, applied ca. 2.5 cm above base, touched down five times to body to form five irregularly shaped loops, and attached to rim where they are folded inward, downward, upward, and outward to form a closed loop, then folded inward over rim. A flat single-tiered curving basket handle made from a thick coil with U-shaped section applied to rim over division between compartments on the right side and attached to rim between compartments on the left side. On body, from ca 2.5 cm above base to rim, fifteen revolutions of thread applied from left to right. Thread decoration applied after body was pinched. CLASSIFICATION: Quadruple Tube IIG4a.