Bulbous Bottle with Two Trailed Handles

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Drawing by Timothy Motz for the Toledo Museum of Art, 1995

Bulbous Bottle with Two Trailed Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date4th-5th century CE

DimensionsH: 7 in. (17.8 cm); Rim Diam: 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm); Body Diam: 2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm); Base Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.7 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1056

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Medium-sized bubbles elongated vertically in neck, oval in body. Numerous black specks at rim and in handles and coils. Transparent light olive (near 10 Y 5/4). Translucent dusky blue green coils, handles, and trails (near 5 BG 3/2). Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.3 cm. Added coils. Excess glass at tip of handle folded back against top of handle and pinched flat. Flaring rim, rounded in flame. Tubular neck with bulge just above construction at its base. Piriform body. Pushed-in hollow tubular base ring. Two curved coil handles with tails applied to lower part of body, trailed up body in 11 irregularly spaced crimps to base of neck, then bent out into decorative loop handle and attached to neck coil where end of handle is folded upward and outward. Rim coil and neck coil on lower part of neck from right to left. CLASSIFICATION: Piriform Bottle I A 1 b with handle type I C 2 a.