Travertine kohl pot, bi-conal shape with a disk rim, cylindrical cavity and rectangular foot on four short legs, excavated in Tomb 52, cemetery A: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Haraga, 12th Dynasty, c.1880-1750 BC

Travertine kohl pot lid, circular with a lower cylindrical boss, excavated in Tomb 52, cemetery A: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Haraga, 12th Dynasty, c.1880-1750 BC

Travertine kohl pot in squat oblate shape with a flat base and slightly everted lower rim, excavated in tomb 72, cemetery A: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Haraga, 12th Dynasty, c.1880-1750 BC

Circular travertine kohl pot lid with a lower central boss, excavated in tomb 72, cemetery A: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Haraga, 12th Dynasty, c.1880-1750 BC

Kohl pot in blue anhydrite with an oblate body and flat everted base: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Kingdom

Kohl pot lid of disk shape with a lower central boss: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Kingdom

Kohl pot with lid in green glazed steatite, a monkey squatting on a base holding a cylindrical container: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Riqqa, Tomb of Beri (296), 18th Dynasty, c.1497-1425

Kohl pot in black and white speckled porphyry with a conoidal body and a flat base with a slight rim: Ancient Egyptian, 21st Dynasty

Kohl pot or makhlah of brass, with elaborate openwork finial: Kuwait, made in India, 1984