pen tray and perfume bottle



pen tray and perfume bottle

Summary

Narrow rectangular slab-built pen tray, tapering slightly towards one end. Body coated with white slip and sides decorated with a slip-trailed trellis pattern in dark red, showing dark brown against a pale yellow ground. Tall square scent bottle in clear, colourless glass, decorated on two opposite sides with small flowers and circles in red, white and blue enamels and gilt, and on other two sides with a single row of white enamel dots. Gilt glass stopper (fixed to bottle) with long pipette.


Object Name

pen tray and perfume bottle

Date Created

c 1750=1800

Dimensions

bottle: 19.5cm x 1.6cm
pen tray: 2.7cm x 21cm

accession number

1923.204

Place of creation

Staffordshire

Medium

Credit

Bequeathed by Thomas Tylston Greg

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