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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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Chatelaine scent bottle in engraved silver by Tiffany

Chatelaine scent bottle in engraved silver by Tiffany. Full hallmarked: 3332 is the pattern number which dates the item to about 1...

George III rock crystal scent bottle enclosed in a gold openwork cage and seal

George III rock crystal and 18k gold cage scent bottle with rocaille stopper.

Porcelain scent bottle, depicting a plum

Porcelain scent bottle, shaped as a plum with leaf and stalk. Gilt silver mount and stopper Possibly by Fürstenberg.

Porcelain balustrade scent bottle with four hand-painted landscapes

Hand-painted porcelain scent bottle, baluster-shaped. Each side has a different decor of a landscape and a flower. Red gold mount ...

Porcelain scent bottle depicting the Three Graces.

Porcelain scent bottle depicting the Three Graces. Silver mount linked to a porcelain stopper shaped as a butterfly with a short c...

Faceted chatelaine scent bottle in Murano glass with murrine featuring portraits of women

Faceted scent bottle in multicolored Murano glass with four murrine depicting two women. One of them is after the portrait of the ...

Gilt wood and ormolu tray with four porcelain scent bottles

Tray in gilt wood, red velvet and bronze containing four decorated porcelain bottles with encrusted flowers of different colours, ...

Spherical smoked glass scent bottle, with trellis-pattern cagework with acanthus leaves and turquoises

Spherical smoked glass scent bottle, with trellis-pattern cagework with acanthus leaves in gilded silver set with turquoises in go...

Engraved silver scent bottle on pedestal with Arlequin and La Cache.

Silver scent bottle engraved with a Harlequin walking in a square and the old French word " Harlequin " - now Arlequin - on the fr...

Coalbrook Dale encrusted porcelain scent bottle

White porcelain scent bottle encrusted with a flowers shoot. The little stopper is shaped like a pink rose. Mark for Coalport, Coa...

Brooch scent bottle in gold with enamelled pansy

Brooch scent bottle in gold and enamel: globular hammered body with an enamelled pansy. Tiny screw cap with triple suspension chai...

Enamelled mandolin perfume box with inner gold figure of S.George

Silver and enamel perfume box shaped as a mandolin of Viennese manufacture (probably by Simon Grenew). It is difficult to say whet...