Glass double cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless with greenish tinge; handles and trail in translucent turquoise blue with streaks of opaque red. Thick rim folded out, over, and in; body comprising two tubes, side by side, made from a single inflated gather by pinching sides vertically to make diaphragm; thick, round bottom; two rod handles attached to side of body over trail in claw pads, drawn up and out, turned in, and pressed onto edge and top of rim. Single trail applied on body near bottom and wound up in a spiral sixteen times, ending in rim. Intact; pinprick bubbles; slight dulling and iridescence on exterior, one tube almost completely filled with soil encrustation, with weathering and iridescence on interior. Colorless double vase made of a single tube with blue handles and blue glass threads.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. The geographic regions represented are Greece and Italy, but not as delimited by modern political frontiers: Greek colonies were established around the Mediterranean basin and on the shores of the Black Sea, and Cyprus became increasingly Hellenized. For Roman art, the geographical limits coincide with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The department also exhibits the art of prehistoric Greece (Helladic, Cycladic, and Minoan) and pre-Roman art of Italic peoples, notably the Etruscans.

Metropolitan Museum of Art