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Cosmetic tube
Byzantine, Palestinian
Early Byzantine Period
6th century AD
Medium/Technique
Glass, free-blown with applied foot, coil handles, and looped trail decoration
Dimensions
Height: 22.2 cm (8 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Otis Norcross Fund
Accession Number01.7450
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Ancient Glass (MFA), no. 56.
DescriptionA cosmetic vessel in the shape of single tube with applied foot; double-tiered three-dimensional coil basket handle. Body enclosed within cage-like arrangment of applied looped trails. Thin coil runs 3/4th on the exterior of tube. Similar vessels are attributed to manufacture in early Byzantine Palestine.
Pale green. Intact; some iridescence.
Pale green. Intact; some iridescence.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Azeez Khayat, New York (according to the MFA Register of Glass: said to have come from the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean); November 1901: purchased by MFA from Azeez Khayat for $ 272.00 (this figure is the total price for MFA 01.7446-01.7451)