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Cosmetic Tube. Opaque very deep green, appearing black, with opaque red and opaque bluish white trails. Rod-formed; applied. Tube: cylindrical. Rim plain, with rounded lip; wall vertical; base shaped like disk, with rounded edge; two small handles applied to upper wall and edge of rim. Wall decorated, from just below rim to base, with seven horizontal bands of trailing, from top to bottom: (1) red trail wound spirally five times around body, (2) white trail wound once around body in continuous zigzag, (3) as (1), (4) as (2), (5) red trail wound spirally 4 1/2 times around body, (6) as (2), and (7) similar to (1), (3), and (5), but number of revolutions is indeterminate.
Publications (5)
Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume Two (2014)
illustrated, p. 187-188, #931;
BIB# 113723
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2011 (2012)
illustrated, p. 25;
Notes: Corning Museum Makes Major Additions to Glass, Library Collections (2012)
illustrated, p. 269, no. 1;
BIB# AI92535