When filled they were sealed with flame and in order to open them the tail or the beak had to be broken. Specifically, in order to keep the perfumes replacements, dove shaped containers were used. Museum of Naples) which contained tiny liquid receptacles made of blown glass, glass paste or moulded with fragrant amber, used mostly to contain lipsticks and eyeshadow. The cosmetics where kept in a beauty case made of valuable wood (See the picture on the side – reliquary containing cosmetics objects – Arch. (PHOTO: Painting in the “Farnesina House” showing a girl pouring perfume into an ampoule – Ist century AD – National Museum – ROME The “Naturalis Historia” by Plinio and the writings by Discoride, who were contemporaries, he was the first one to apply botany to medicine, fascinating are information and the thorough news fonts, prescriptions and advices in the new archaeological findings in which also Pompeii its particularly generous in giving us. The Romans, even though originally characterized by a certain simplicity of their local costumes, easily got seduced by their care of the body and …”to look good” (lets think about Marco Porcio Catone who regretted, during his senate speeches, the rigid application of the “Mos Maiorum” in the Pre Augustan era”). The knowledge of cosmetics and pharmacology in the old Greece and oriental civilizations were so deep to reach unchanged the 17th century. Unstable like the mood of time and transitional as vanity, the search for beauty is old as man (and obviously woman).
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