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Glass Cosmetic Vessel

Museum of Islamic Art

Currently on view at Museum of Islamic Art
Title:
Glass Cosmetic Vessel
Production place:
Syria
Date:
600 - 799
Period:
Umayyad
Material:
Glass
Technique:
Blowing, Applying
Dimensions:
15.6 × 7.3 × 3 cm

This free-blown cosmetic vessel is of pale-green colour with a blue-turquoise applied handle. It has two tubular compartments with an everted rim and a blue-turquoise basket handle applied on its sides. This type of cosmetic flacons was probably a toiletry item made to hold kohl, a dark powder for eye make-up. Cosmetic glass vessels were widespread in the eastern Roman Empire and were produced in large quantities until the early Islamic period.

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