White opaline glass scent bottle with blue coralene beading

White opaline glass scent bottle with blue coralene beading forming a decor of flowers and leaves. Screw silver cap hallmarked A.B & C for the silversmiths A. Bromet, based in Jewin Street, London, active around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries (registered approximately 1887–1901); Birmingham, 1906. Coralene glass was a Victorian form of decoration on glass. A picture or design was painted onto the glass with “syrupy” enamel paint, and tiny glass balls were applied to this surface, then re-heated so they partially melted into the surface. The result looked a little like the rough surface of coral. Coralene was first patented in 1883 by Schierholz in Germany, but very soon afterwards was being exported in large volumes from Bohemia and also made in the USA by the Mt Washingon Glass Company in New Bedford. It was sometimes called “Coral beaded” or “Coralene beaded” and various other names. The Mt Washington coralene designs, as well as those from Bohemia, often imitated strands of coral patterned over the glass, like the small vase shown below left.