Glass double cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent yellow green; handles in translucent blue green, and trail in translucent turquoise blue. Rim folded in and down sides of neck; body comprising two tubes, side by side, made from a single inflated gather by pinching sides vertically to make diaphragm; pontil mark on bottom; basket handle made from three separate rods, two attached to side of body over trail, drawn up and outward, then turned sharply in and dropped onto rim, the third rod then applied to top of one handle, drawn up and down, with acute angle at apex, and attached to top of other handle. Single fine trail applied as a pad near bottom of body, drawn up and wound in a spiral slightly over seven times around body, ending below rim. Broken and repaired around body with one small hole; large, elongated bubbles in body, more bubbles and impurities in handle; faint iridescent weathering.

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