Triple Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

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Triple Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine

DateLate 4th to end of 5th century

DimensionsH: 6 5/16 in. (16.0 cm); Rim Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm); Body Diam: 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1306

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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled glass vessel, classified as a Triple Tube IIC3a, consists of a flattened body with three tubular compartments arranged in a row. The tubes narrow at the waist and broaden to their greatest diameter just above a narrow, flattened base. The hollow rim is folded inward and downward. The glass is transparent natural pale green (5 G 7/2) with similarly colored side handles and a translucent to opaque dusky blue-green (near 5 BG 3/2) basket handle. The vessel is made of thin glass with small oval bubbles in the body and visible blowing spirals. The pontil mark is approximately 1.3 cm in diameter and has been ground off. The body is pinched twice lengthwise. Two angular coil side handles are applied above the middle of the body, pulled upward above the rim, folded inward and downward, and attached to the rim. The tops of these handles are pinched to form vertical projections. A curved basket handle made from a separate coil with a circular section is applied to the top of the right vertical projection and attached to the top of the left vertical projection. Excess glass at the tips of the handles is folded back against them.

Published References

Puma R. D. de, Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave, Roma, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2009, p. 133, no. 185.