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Antique scent bottles

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).

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White porcelain scent bottle in Rococo style with landscapes in sanguine

White porcelain scent bottle in Rococo style with two different landscapes in sanguine. Gilt mount and palmette cap with chain. Me...

Round chatelaine scent bottle in purple glass enclosed in an open work filigree metal cage with belt clip

Round chatelaine scent bottle in purple glass enclosed in an open work filigree metal cage. Suspension chain and double ring linke...

Flat teardrop perfume bottle in thick white-veined green Nailsea glass with a later Victorian silver cap

Flat drop scent bottle in thick green Nailsea glass veined with white. The silver cap is marked for Birmingham, 1899, but in my co...

Art Nouveau set of four triangular glass scent bottles in different colors with silver stand

Art Nouveau set of four triangular glass scent bottles in different colors with silver frames, caps, and containers. The cylindric...

Scent-jar, vase-shaped in silver, engraved with Régence design

Scent-jar, vase-shaped in silver, engraved with Régence design. Proper mark on the pedestal and scratch for silver test under it....

Chatelaine metal scent bottle with a geometric mosaic of multicolour semi precious stones

Chatelaine metal scent bottle embellished with a geometric mosaic of multicolor semi precious stones in a ribbed frame. Round scre...

Embossed gold scent bottle, ring shaped with a central glass box

Embossed gold scent bottle, ring shaped with a central glass box with hinged lid. screw cap and suspension chain with little ring....

Ormolu and enamel chatelaine scent bottle with a kneeling woman in an exotic costume

Ormolu and enamel chatelaine scent bottle of bulbous form, showing on the front a kneeling woman in an exotic costume. Under the...

Porcelain scent bottle shaped as a pink star with gold edging and the words Espoir Douce

Porcelain scent bottle shaped as a pink star with gold edging. The front has a central shield with the word "Espoir" (Hope), the b...

Gilt silver scent bottle engraved in the manner of Kate Greenaway by S.Mordan

Gilt silver cylinder scent bottle engraved in the manner of Kate Greenaway. A central cartouche depictis a little girl perched on ...

Silver necklace with eleven Murano glass beads, shaped as scent bottles.

Silver chain with eleven lampwork glass beads made like little scent bottles.

Scent bottle in Murano glass with aventurine and three murrine with portraits of famous Italian men

Rare standing scent bottle in millefiori glass with aventurine. Three murrine with portraits: the Pope Pio IX, Giuseppe Mazzini an...