Glass double cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale green, combined with translucent blue green; trails in translucent pale green. Thick, everted rim, folded over and in; body comprising two tubes, side by side, made from a single inflated gather by pinching sides vertically to make diaphragm; small, uneven bottom with trace of pontil mark. One trail applied as an irregular vertical zigzag pattern on sides, extending from rim across upper body; another trail, applied over the other below rim and wound down in a spiral fifteen times, ending around lower body with an upward trail. Body intact, but losses to some of spiral trail, especially at the bottom; many bubbles, some elongated, and black streaky impurities; slight limy encrustation and faint iridescence.

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