Container for Eye Makeup (kohl tube)
Container for Eye Makeup (kohl tube)
Place of OriginWestern Asiatic, probably northwestern Iran
Date5th-4th century BCE
DimensionsH: 3 1/2 in. (9.2 cm); W: 13/16 in. (2.0 cm); Depth: 3/8 in. (1 cm)
MediumRod-formed; applied shoulder knobs; applied marvered and unmarvered threads.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1981.60
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DescriptionKohl tube. Dark green ground (appearing black) with opaque white, opaque orange, dark green, and yellowish-green decoration. Upright lip encircled by a coil that acts as a rounded rim; short cylindrical neck; almost right-angled junction with vestigial shoulder; elongated body, square in horizontal section, with four flat sides; body tapers downward to an almost flat bottom. The inside of the tube is cylindrical and extends to the bottom; halfway down it is blocked by kohl or some other substance. An unmarvered twisted coil of opaque white, opaque orange, and dark green threads is attached at the edge of the lip; a marvered opaque orange thread wound horizontally around the junction of the shoulder and side; a single marvered opaque white and an opaque orange thread just below the shoulder; a marvered opaque white thread attached to the body, wound spirally around the middle of the vessel, and then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern; below are three horizontal marvered threads of opaque orange, opaque white, and opaque orange, respectively, each wound horizontally around the lower body. A marvered u-shaped opaque orange thread rises vertically on the two corner edges of one side; a marvered u-shaped yellowish-green thread is applied to the other two corner edges. Dark green shoulder knobs (appearing black) rise vertically from the four corners of the shoulder.
Label TextProbably from Northwestern Iran.Published References"Recent Important Acquisitions," Journal of Glass Studies 24, 1982, p. 87, 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, cat. no. 31, p. 86, repr. (col.) p. 69.
5th-4th century BCE, possibly later
New Kingdom, late 18th or 19th Dynasty, about 1400-1225 BCE
18th Dynasty, about 1400-1350 BCE
late 19th-early 20th century
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
Mid-fourteenth to late thirteenth century BCE
5th century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
about 350-300 BCE
late 19th-early 20th century
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
2nd-1st century BCE
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