Red leather kohl container

Red leather kohl container

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Red leather kohl container
Science Museum Group
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Red leather kohl container, pear shaped body with tubular cane neck, circular disc with mirror inset into leather suspended from base, silver and gold thread decoration, North African, 1880-1910

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Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A300145
Materials:
leather, cane, glass and thread
Measurements:
with stopper: height 335 mm
length 113 mm
width 35 mm
type:
kohl containers