Glass double cosmetic flask (kohl tube)
Not on view
Colorless with blue tinge and translucent purple; handles and trail also colorless.
Rim folded out, over, and in, with deep, horizontal tooling indent below on one side; body comprising two tubes, side by side, made from a single inflated gather by pinching sides vertically to make diaphragm; small, flattened bottom; two rod handles attached to side of body over diaphragm and trail decoration in large, claw pads, drawn up and out, turned in, and trailed off on top of rim.
Single fine trail wound in a spiral twelve times around body from bottom to rim.
Intact, except for losses to part of trail; pinprick bubbles; dulling, pitting, iridescence, and creamy brown weathering.
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