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cosmetic tube

Object NameDouble Cosmetic Tube with Handles
Made FromGlass
Date300-499
Place MadeSyria
TechniqueFree blown with applied and trailed decoration
SizeOverall H: 11.4 cm, W: 8 cm, D: 3.4 cm
Accession Number2022.1.125
Credit LineGift of Robert B. Woodward
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionDouble Cosmetic Tube with Handles. Green and dark blue glass; free blown with applied and trailed decoration. Syrian lekythos of double form. Spiral of applied blue glass around body below two triangular blue handles. Pearly iridescence on green.
Provenance
Source Brooklyn Museum - 2022-09-16
Transcendence
Karina Malling
2016
fragment
1400-1085 BCE
inlay
25 BCE-99 CE
Whitefriars Inkwell
Whitefriars Glass Ltd.
about 1850-1860
Corning Glass Works, Fallbrook
about 1944-1946