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
Collection Group
Place of creation
Staffordshire
Medium
Credit
Bequeathed by Thomas Tylston Greg
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