Glass and silver scent bottle by Erard

Rare opaline “gorge de pigeon” scent bottle in form of a horn; the elaborate Arabesque/Persian design is the work of Oscar Pierre Erard created with gold paste and enamel with applied cabochon glass stones of turquoise, moonstone, sapphire and coral. Fitted with a silver mount, hinged cover chased with flowers leaves. Hallmarked for London, 1885, H.T.B for Brockwell & Son (Henry Titterton Brockwell), registered in October 1875 Office – Brooke Street London. Erard, a contemporary of his better-known countryman Jules Barbe – Thomas Webb’s chief designer from 1879 to 1900 – is thought to have left a politically unstable France for the West Midlands sometime in the 1880s.