PERFUME BOTTLE
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
The perfume bottle is urn-shaped. It has a gold cap and a glass bottom. The bottom is engraved with trefoil ornaments on the glass. The gold hinged cap has a large diamond in the center at the top. There is a border of small diamonds and a band of leaf sprays carved in gold around it, alternating with a row of small diamonds. There are small diamonds around the neck of the bottle and one in the thumb piece.
- Object name:
- PERFUME BOTTLE
- Made from:
- Gold -- glass -- diamonds
- Made in:
- Paris, France
- Date made:
- ca. 1840
- Size:
- 8.5 cm (3 5/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 11.114
- Class:
- GOLD
- Signature marks:
- MARK around rim of shoulder: Eagle's head facing right (guarantee for lowest gold content (750), Paris 1838-1847; A lozenge-shaped maker only partially legible (...C) unidentifiable maker
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973