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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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Wedgwood globular jasperware scent bottle

Wedgwood globular jasperware scent bottle featuring two scenes from Greek mythology. The letters BPC and the number 3727 are scrat...

Porcelain scent bottle in the form of a pear painted with a figure of a girl

Porcelain scent bottle in the form of a pear, shaded ground cream to pink, the leaves picked out in blue, painted a figure of a gi...

Bend scent bottle in green opaline glass

Bend green opaline glass flacon, hand-painted with light grottesque decor. Brass mounted with hinged metal cap (surmounted by a ca...

Rare porcelain scent bottle depicting Betty Boop

Rare porcelain scent bottle depicting Betty Boop, an American animated cartoon created in 1930. Gilt metal crown top.

Corozo coquilla nut scent bottle featuring a scene from Iliade

Corozo coquilla nut scent bottle featuring a scene from Iliade: Achilles swears revenge on the body of his friend Patroclus. On th...

Belt-clip chatelaine scent bottle in silver and black niello, bearing the word “КАВКАЗЪ” (Caucasus) and the monogram H F

Belt-clip flask in nd silver and black niello, bearing the word "КАВКАЗЪ" (Caucasus) in ancient Cyrillic alphabet and the monogram...

Blue and white porcelain scent bottle, produced in China and silver mounted in the Netherlands

Blue and white porcelain scent bottle, produced in China from the 14th to the 18th century to be exported to European countries by...

Metal vinaigrette shaped as a claw holding a ball

Metal vinaigrette shaped as a claw holding a ball. Perforated hinged cap with inner glass stopper. No marks. The antique symbol of...

KPM porcelain scent bottle with finely painted round cartouches

KPM scent bottle with blue scepter mark, but without painter's mark, in white, fluted porcelain, with a pointed oval body with foo...

Sprinkler scent bottle in silver and enamel with floral motifs and stripes

Silver and enamel scent bottle with floreal motifs and stripes. It opens to reveal a brass mount marked "Bijou", an illegible mark...

Enamelled metal vinaigrette made as a an inverted fleur de lys

Enamelled metal vinaigrette made as a an inverted fleur de lys. Suspension chain and hinged perforated cap.

White opaline glass scent bottle with hand-painted floral decoration and silver cap by S.Mordan

White opaline glass scent bottle beautifully cut. The front oval flat panel has a hand-painted floral decoration framed in a gilt ...