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Kohl Tube in the form of a Palm Column

Period New Kingdom Period (Ancient Egyptian, 1550–1070 BCE)
Dynasty Dynasty 18 (Ancient Egyptian, 1550–1295 BCE)
Place of OriginEgypt
Dateabout 1400-1225 BCE
DimensionsH: 4 3/8 in. (11.2 cm); diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); Pad-Base diam: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm)
Mediumrod-formed glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1966.114
Not on View
DescriptionDark blue rod-formed glass with opaque white and opaque orange-yellow trails; core-formed, applied rim and base extensively tooled, trail decorated, marvered and tooled, applied marvered and unmarvered threards.
Published References5000 Jahre aegyptisched Kunst, ex. cat., Kunsthaus Zurich, February 11-April 16, 1961, p. 86, no. 281

"Recent Important Acquisitions," Journal of Glass Studies 9, 1967, p. 133, no. 1

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," Art Q 30, 1967, p. 153

Nolte, Birgit, Die Glasgefasse im alten Aegypten, Munchner Aegyptologische Studien, no. 14, Berlin, 1968, pp. 140-141, no. 5, pl. 31

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, p. 16, ill.

"Art in Glass," The Glass Industry 51, July 1970. p. 315, ill.

Otto Wittmann, ed., The Toledo Museum of Art. A Guide to the Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1976, p. 7, fig. 6

Grose, David F., "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, Toledo, Ohio, 1978, pp. 70-71, fig. 1

Grose, David F., "The Origins and Early History of Glass," in The History of Glass, eds. Dan Klein an dWard Lloyd, pp. 9-38, London, 1984, p. 15, ill.

Grose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.c. to A.d. 50, New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, Catalog No. 10, p. 62, repr. (col.) p. 42, drawing, p. 397.

Grose, David F., "Innovation and change in ancient technologies: The anomalous case of the Roman glass industry," in High-technology ceramics, Westerville, OH, 1986, p. 1, fig. 67.

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 18, repr. (col.) 1C, p. 19.

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 65, repr. (col.).

Peck, William H., Sandra E. Knudsen and Paula Reich, Egypt in Toledo: The Ancient Egyptian Collection at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2011, p. 60-61, repr. (col.) p. 61.

Exhibition HistoryCincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum; Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Mistress of the house, mistress of heaven: Women in ancient Egypt, 1996-97, no. 23, p. 80, repr. 81 (col.)

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb, October 29, 2010-January 8, 2012.

Footed Jar
New Kingdom Period
about 1400-1350 BCE
Cosmetic Jar
New Kingdom Period
about 1400-1225 BCE
Kohl Tube
New Kingdom, late 18th or 19th Dynasty, about 1400-1225 BCE
5th-4th century BCE, possibly later
Tube with Two Handles
9th-11th century CE (?)
Ritual Spoon in the Form of a Bound Oryx
New Kingdom Period
about 1350 BCE
5th-4th century BCE, possibly later
Jar (Amphoriskos)
5th century BCE
Ovoid Jar with Two Handles
Probably fourth century
Tube with Two Handles
Probably fourth century

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