Glass double cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent light blue; handles and trail in same color, streaked with opaque brown red. Everted tubular 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; pontil mark on thick, flattened bottom; two rod handles attached to upper body, drawn up, out, then turned down and in, and trailed onto edge of rim. Single fine trail applied as a pad on upper body, drawn up and wound in a spiral twice around body below handles, then wound down nine times ending near bottom. Body intact, but some parts of trail missing; pinprick and larger bubbles, and blowing striations; dulling and iridescent weathering on exterior, thick creamy weathering and iridescence on interior.

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