A Double Glass Cosmetic Kohl Tube with a Large Handle, Late Roman-Early Byzantine, circa 400 C.E. – 500 C.E.
H. 25 cm
HC_GL_1087
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Provenance
Jerusalem art market acquired 1980's, American private collection 1990.
A double
glass cosmetic kohl tube with large handle, Bluish green in color. Double
tube with large basket handle. To parallel tubes made by pinching one tube at
center; rim folded in; walls taper towards bottom; base narrow. Multiple
handle made from superimposed trails. Forming a large and elegant basket
handle. Very unusual to find such large and elegant piece of this type in
such fine and intact condition.