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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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Double scent bottle in glass and gilt silver in the original box

Double cut crystal bottle. The perfume side features a gilded silver frame and a hinged cap, decorated with small dots and a glass...

Wooden box lined in red brocade containg four scent bottles and a writing set

Wooden box probably later painted in white with a inner lined in red brocade. It contains four scent bottles in red glass of sligh...

Chatelaine scent bottle in Murano glass with murrine featuring five portraits, a gondola and Rialto bridge

Obsidian glass and specks of gold aventurine scent bottle with five murrine portraits: the Pope Pio IX, Francesco Giuseppe, the Au...

Travel set in red velvet including a clear glass scent bottle

Necessaire/travel set in red velvet including a clear glass scent bottle with stopper, a pair of scissors, a mirror and three bone...

Balustrade- shaped scent bottle in bue faceted and starry glass

Blue faceted and starry glass scent bottle of in the shape of a balustrade with silver pedestal. Hinged ornate silver cap and inn...

Drop-shaped scent bottle in Murano glass with red and blue ribs and silver leaf

Long drop-shaped scent bottle in Murano glass with red and blue ribs illuminated by a silver leaf applied to the inside. Hinged c...

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....

Oval scent bottle in Sèvres blue porcelain with a courting scene and gold friezes

Flat, oval scent bottle in blue porcelain, typical of th Sèvres production. with a courting scene