Triple Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle
Triple Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine
DateLate fourth to end of fifth 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
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. Small oval bubbles in body. Blowing spirals.
Transparent natural pale green (5 G 7/2). Similarly colored side handles. Translucent to opaque dusky blue-green (near 5 BG 3/2) basket handle.
Free blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.3 cm in diameter; ground off. Body pinched twice lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles folded back against handles.
Rim folded inward and downward. Flattened body with three tubular compartments in a row, narrowing at waist and broadening to greatest diameter just above base. Narrow, flattened base. Two angular coil handles applied above middle of body, pulled upward above level of rim, folded inward and downward, and attached to rim, then pinched to form vertical projections; a curved basket handle made from a separate coil with circular section applied to top of right vertical projection and attached to top of left vertical projection.
CLASSIFICATION: Triple Tube IIC3a.
Published ReferencesPuma R. D. de, Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave, Roma, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2009, p. 133, no. 185.
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth through end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
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