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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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Silver alloy dance chatelaine with a round medallion featuring a portrait of Charles I Stuart after Van Dyck

Silver-plated metal dance chatelaine with a belt clip and a round medallion featuring a Van Dyck-inspired portrait of Charles I St...

Egg-shaped chatelaine scent bottle in black porcelain with two different classical scene in grisaille

Egg-shaped chatelaine scent bottle in black porcelain showing two different classical scene in grisaille. Silver mount and hinged ...

Lampworked scent bottle made of white spun glass with ‘Venezia’ and the date ‘1907’ in aventurine.

Tiny lampworked bottle made of luminous white spun glass which has been wound around a glass core. Its surface decoration presents...

Complete dance chatelain in gilt metal and green glass stones

Complete dance chatelain composed by an aid memoire, a scent bottle and a propelling pencil attached to a diamond shaped belt clip...

Amaranth glass “Grand Tour” scent bottle, souvenir of the church of the Madeleine

Amaranth thick glass "Grand Tour" scent bottle of sinuous shape with ormolu mount and laces. Hinged brass cap with the graphic of ...

Yellow glass balsamary

Yellow iridescent glass balsamary, pear-shaped.

Horse-themed Palais Royal presentation with two blue opaline scent bottles

Couple of blue opaline scent bottles bronze doree mounted on a chart. Every detail is horse-themed: the hinged caps as jockey hats...

Little wardrobe in painted wood containing a set of maquillage and sewing instruments

Little wardrobe made in painted wood decorated with glass stones. It opens with a tiny key to reveal a set of maquillage and sewin...

Porcelain bottle in the shape of an arm and hand, copy of the cast of George Sand’s arm

Porcelain bottle in the shape of an arm and hand, beautifully modeled and detailed. The cork is covered with a decorated paper tha...

Mother-of-pearl little boat, souvenir of Liverpool with glass scent bottle and thimble

This little boat is a souvenir of Liverpool, as is printed on the mother of pearl sail, but the underside of the shell ‘hull’ reve...

Meissen porcelain scent bottle depicting a woman holding pug

Classic Meissen porcelain scent bottle, showing a lady holding a pug whose head is the scent bottle's stopper. On the bottom the b...