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Red Cloud
Portrait of Charles II of Savoy known as the Good
Lamentation over the dead Christ
Madonna and Child
The children of Charles I of England
Madonna and Child with Six Saints
The archangel Gabriel and Tobias
Bas-relief with a garland of flowers and fruit
Madonna and Child
The three archangels and Tobias
the return of the prodigal son
Portrait of a Gentlewoman
Madonna and Child
Trinity
Stigmata of St. Francis
The vanity of human life
Portrait of an Old Man
Annunciation
Venus
Bust of Minerva
Bust - manly portrait
Psykter di Euthymides
Plate decorated with ribbons and nets
Canteen bowl
Ingot Blade Kit
Landscape relief known as of Polyphemus and Galatea
Colombine ointment
Signpost
Fibulae with disc bracket
Portrait of Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy
Madona with Child
Story of Aeneas and Dido
The family of Vittorio Amedeo di Savoia
Holy family with San Giovannino
The Sacra di San Michele
The thirst suffered by the first crusaders under Jerusalem
Table tureen
Rotisserie
Coffee cup
Kanjar (pug)
Japanese armor of the Do-Maru type
Parade plaque of Henry II of France
Corsaletto
Horse headboard
Portrait of a young girl
Self portrait
Male head
Naked young man next to an old oriental dress
Young man study
Pisces album
Fish album
Fish album
Bird album
Flower album

Colombine ointment

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The dove-shaped thin glass ointment is a container for perfumes, ointments and balms. In order to consume the contents it was necessary to break the tail: this specimen is the only one still sealed that is known, and it is half filled with a clear liquid, with a slight pink sediment deposited on the bottom. These refined containers, often in bright colors, were made with the free blowing technique, which allowed them to be modeled in the shape of a dove; after the insertion of the ointment they were sealed. The origin of free blowing has been identified in the Syrian area around the middle of the 1st century BC: from here it spreads rapidly throughout the Roman world, where it allows the affirmation of glass containers for various uses in daily life already starting from the very early imperial age. Attested above all in northern Italy and very frequent in Piedmontese burial contexts, the colombina ointment is present with few specimens in the other regions of the Empire, so much so that its production area was identified in the western Cisalpina, during the first century AD. , in particular in the active furnaces along the Ticino river basin and the Verbano lake. Similar ointments are often found, even in several examples, in the grave goods of women's tombs, together with others of a spherical shape, also typical of Piedmont.
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Title: Colombine ointment

Author: Anonymous

Date: I sec. d.C.

Technique: Blown glass

Displayed in: Royal Museums Turin

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