Events

Bought, but not arrived yet from the UK, the US, Portugal and Spain

Thesee scent bottle will physically enter my collection in some time. The photos are from the auction houses.

Meeting IPBA-IPE Reggio Emilia 18/19 ottobre 2025

Three years ago, we founded the Italian chapter of the IPBA in Venice, the International Association of Perfume, Face Powder, and ...

Magnani Collection: Scent Bottles

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).

Silver scent-jar in closed pomander form

Scent-jar in closed pomander form, in silver with chased floral ornaments. It opens in four parts: the bottom contains a sponge th...

Crystal scent bottle with Napoleonic portraits

Cut crystal scent bottle with white ceramic paste inlays, with a double portrait of Napoleon and his second wife Marie Louise, lat...

Ivory scent bottle with two carved portraits: Emperor Costantine and his wife Fausta Flavia Maxima

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 scent bottle enclosed in a elaborated openwork cage showing two Saints. Rare closure

Blue glass flat-round scent bottle enclosed in a gilded silver openwork cage showing on the front Saint Ulrich (identified by the ...