Quadruple Tube With Side Handles

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Quadruple Tube With Side Handles

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine or southern Phoenicia

Date4th century

DimensionsH: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm); Rim Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm); Body Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1315

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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled glass vessel, classified as a Quadruple Tube IC4a, has a rectangular body made up of four tubular compartments bundled together. The tubes narrow toward the waist and broaden toward a flat base. The rim is folded outward, upward, inward, and downward, then flattened. The glass is transparent manganese-colored grayish red purple (near 5 RP 4/2) with similarly colored translucent handles and thread decoration. The vessel is made of thin glass with visible blowing spirals. The pontil mark, about 1.2 cm in diameter, has been ground off. The fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. The body is pinched twice lengthwise. Four angular coil side handles are applied to the upper body, attached to the rim, then folded inward and upward. Excess glass at the tips of the handles is clipped off. On the body, between the application point of the handles and the base, at least fourteen to fifteen revolutions of thread are present. The direction and point of application of the thread cannot be determined. The thread decoration was applied after the body was pinched.