Antique decorative scent bottles
Welcome to a world where art, history, and beauty are captured in miniature form. This is the home of a private collection of over 1,200 antique scent bottles, each telling a story of craftsmanship and culture. Spanning from antiquity to 1940, my collection invites you on a journey through time. explore the gallery, discover thematic routes, and share a passion forty years in the making.
My collection
I started my collection of scent bottles more than forty years ago. Made of different materials over a long period from antiquity to 1940, they now comprise a collection of over 1200 pieces produced mostly in Europe, but not only. All containers are no taller than 9 cm (3 inches).
The origin of a passion
From curiosity to collection:
the allure of antique bottles.
Magnani Monica
Collezione Magnani, owner.
My passion for ancient or vintage perfume bottles (defined decorative scent bottles by international collectors to distinguish them from commercial ones, those that bear the marks of a particular brand), began in my now distant adolescence.
Every time I went into a perfumery with my mother or my aunt, emancipated and cultured women who habitually used different kinds of cosmetics and fragrances.
I was given a sample of one of the fashionable perfumes at that time, which then entered my first small collection.
Over the years, being a nephew of an antique trader, I have gone back in time and now my collection consists mostly of scent bottles from ancient period to 1o 1940 about.
I love to collect: not to be linked with the idea of hoarding or the mania of possessing, but of discovery and research.
The objects of the past become time ships that bring back traces of stories that I would like to know in all their aspects: I am fascinated by techniques, shapes, colours and materials, combining in creating a unique object deeply rooted in its time and in the culture producing it.
Magnani Monica
President of Collezione Magnani
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