Object: Beauty Product 023 Type: Container for fragrant substances Place of origin: China Date of production: c.1970s Material: plastic container, metal lid Top diameter: 4 cm Base diameter: 2.5 cm Height: 6.5 cm Women would make large quantities of thick liquid perfume called "mukhammariyah" in a stone pot. The thick perfume would then be poured into smaller containers such as this one, to be distributed among friends and family, or to be kept ready for use by the woman herself.

scented beauty product from the private collection of Fatima Ahmead Obaid Zayed Almogani Alnaqbi, as documented by Suheyla Takesh and Clint McLean (photographer) as a part of Suheyla Takesh's Summer 2014 FIND Fellowship

Object: Beauty Product 023
Type: Container for fragrant substances
Place of origin: China
Date of production: c.1970s
Material: plastic container, metal lid
Top diameter: 4 cm
Base diameter: 2.5 cm
Height: 6.5 cm
Women would make large quantities of thick liquid perfume called "mukhammariyah" in a stone pot. The thick perfume would then be poured into smaller containers such as this one, to be distributed among friends and family, or to be kept ready for use by the woman herself.