Quadruple Tube with Zigzag and Basket Handle

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Quadruple Tube with Zigzag and Basket Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateSixth to early seventh century

DimensionsH: 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); Body Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4.0 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1316

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DescriptionThin glass. Blowing spirals. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Translucent dusky blue green handles, zigzag, and thread (between 5 BG 3/2 and 5 BG 4/6). Thin glass. Blowing spirals. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Free blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.6 cm in diameter. Body pinched twice lengthwise. Added thread. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles clipped off. Rim folded inward and downward. Body with four tubular compartments in a bundle, narrowing toward waist and broadening toward base. Flattened base. A three-dimensional triple-tiered basket handle made of at least six coils with circular sections; the first tier consists of two coils set at right angles to each other (one crossing above the other) applied to rim at divisions between compartments and attached to rim on the opposite side; the second tier consists of one coil applied to a top corner of the upper coil of the first tier and attached to the opposite corner of the same coil and a cross-element consisting of two coils, each applied to a corner of the lower coil of the first tier and attached to the center of the lower coil of the second tier; a third tier applied to the top of the second tier is missing. Freestanding zigzag coil applied to upper body from left to right with nineteen segments between rim and upper body, continuing as a wound thread overlapping bottom of zigzag with thirteen revolutions from upper body to above base. Thread decoration applied after body was pinched. CLASSIFICATION: Quadruple Tube VIIIB4a.

Published References

Puma, R. D. de, Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave, Roma, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2009, no. 187, p. 133.