Events
Three years ago, we founded the Italian chapter of the IPBA in Venice, the International Association of Perfume, Face Powder, and ...
MAGNANI COLLECTION. The Bottles Exhibition Exhibition From October 6, 2018 to March 31, 2019 Venice, Palazzo Mocenigo Museum Openi...
antique scent bottles
My collection
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).
Scent-jar in closed pomander form, in silver with chased floral ornaments. It opens in four parts: the bottom contains a sponge th...
Cut crystal scent bottle with white ceramic paste inlays, with a double portrait of Napoleon and his second wife Marie Louise, lat...
Ivory bottle with rich carved decoration of foliage and acorns, partially eroded by time. On the front the profile of a man with a...
Blue glass flat-round scent bottle enclosed in a gilded silver openwork cage showing on the front Saint Ulrich (identified by the ...