scent bottle



scent bottle

Summary

A bottle of rectangular form with the short sides being convex with a long tapering neck and a metal cap fitted with a stopper in the form of a leaf fixed to the cap with a chain. Enamel on metal and painted in colours on the two long sides with sprays of flowers on a white ground; the shorter sides are painted one yellow, one blue decorated with trellis and dot pattern in gold. The edges are painted in colours blue, purple, yellow and orange and decorated with scrolls in gold. The neck is painted with panels of the same colours with scroll decoration in gold with white panels between decorated with gold.


Object Name

scent bottle

Date Created

1785-1799

Dimensions

object: 9cm x 2.8cm

accession number

1958.273

Place of creation

South Staffordshire

Medium

Credit

Harold Raby bequest

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