Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle

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Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle

DatePossibly late 19th or early 20th century

DimensionsH: 5 1/2 in. (14.0 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm); Body Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6.1cm)

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

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1249

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Numerous pinprick and small bubbles, many burst at surface. Black specks. Blowing spirals. Translucent vivid moderate blue green (5 BG 4/6). Translucent similarly colored handles and thread. Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.1 cm in diameter, over reamer mark. Excess glass at tips of handles drawn out thin and snapped off. Rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Funnel neck with curved junction at shoulder. Strongly sloping shoulder. Elongated bulbous body with greatest diameter at midpoint. Concave base. Two round coil handles applied to shoulder and attached to rim. Broad round basket handle, made of a heavy coil with round cross section, applied to top of one handle and attached to top of the other one.