PERFUME BOTTLE
Creator(s): Unknown
On view in: Marjorie Post's Bedroom
About this object
The perfume bottle is made from blue glass and gold. It is urn-shaped with a foot and wide facets at the top. The body is somewhat flattened and is covered with chased gold openwork representing a grapevine. On each side are the same two seated figures, male and female, picking grapes and seated on a large fallen column. The gold cap has on the top a chased flower spray and others on the sides all on a stippled ground.
- Object name:
- PERFUME BOTTLE
- Made from:
- Glass -- gold
- Made in:
- France
- Date made:
- ca. 19th c.
- Size:
- 2 13/16 × 1 5/16 in. (7.1 × 3.3 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 11.117
- Class:
- GOLD
- Signature marks:
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973