Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle

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Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine

DateLate 4th to late 5th century

DimensionsH: 4 15/16 in. (12.6 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm); Body Diam: 2 11/16 in. (6.9 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, handles hot-tooled on.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1037

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DescriptionThis bulbous jar (Jar Class I F 2 a) is free-blown and tooled using thin glass. The fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. The glass is transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2) with translucent similarly colored handles and thread. The pontil mark is about 1.6 cm in diameter. Excess glass at the tips of the side handles is folded back against the top of each handle. The jar has a collar rim, rounded in flame, with an open cutout below, a deeply concave neck, a sloping shoulder, and a bag-shaped body with its greatest diameter near the base. The base is round. Two angular coil handles are applied to the shoulder, touched down to the side of the cutout, and attached to the side of the rim. A curved basket handle, made from a heavy coil with a round cross-section, is applied to the top of one side handle and attached to the top of the other. On the lower part of the body, a large thin zigzag thread with fourteen segments continues for one and a half revolutions above and over the zigzag.