Bulbous Jar with Multiple Handles and Basket Handle
Bulbous Jar with Multiple Handles and Basket Handle
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine or Syria
DateFifth century
DimensionsH: 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm); Rim Diam: 2 11/16 in. (6.9 cm); Body Diam: 3 1/16 in. (7.7 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, handles hot-tooled on.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.943
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent natural green. Translucent similarly colored handles. Exact color cannot be determined because of weathering.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.4 cm. Added thread. Excess glass at tips of side handles clipped off and at tip of basket handle folded back.
Collar rim, rounded in flame, with open cutout below. Deeply concave neck with curved transition to shoulder. Strongly sloped shoulder. Elongated bulbous body with greatest diameter at middle. Concave base with kick. Four angular coil handles applied to shoulder, touched down to side of cutout, and attached to edge of rim. Round basket handle made of a heavy coil with round cross section applied to top of one handle and attached to top of opposite handle.
On lower half of body, six and a half revolutions of spiral thread.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I G 2.
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
5th century
Possibly late 19th or early 20th century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Sixth to early seventh centuries
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
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