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Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle
Image Not Available for Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle

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
Not on View
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.
Image Not Available for Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle
Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Image Not Available for Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle
Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Image Not Available for Ovoid Jar with Basket Handle, on Base Ring
Ovoid Jar with Basket Handle, on Base Ring
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Image Not Available for Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle
Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle
Late fourth to late fifth century
Image Not Available for Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle
Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Image Not Available for Bulbous Jar with Multiple Handles and Basket Handle
Bulbous Jar with Multiple Handles and Basket Handle
Fifth century
Image Not Available for Bulbous Jar with Two Handles, on Base Ring
Bulbous Jar with Two Handles, on Base Ring
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Inverted Conical Jar with Two Handles
Inverted Conical Jar with Two Handles
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Image Not Available for Inverted Conical Jar with Multiple Handles and Basket Handle, on Foot
Inverted Conical Jar with Multiple Handles and Basket Handle, on Foot
Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Image Not Available for Double-Decked Jar with Three Handles
Double-Decked Jar with Three Handles
Probably fourth century
Image Not Available for Inverted Conical Jar with Two Handles on Base Ring
Inverted Conical Jar with Two Handles on Base Ring
Probably fourth century
Image Not Available for Squat Bulbous Jar with Multiple Handles
Squat Bulbous Jar with Multiple Handles
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century

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