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Collectibles / Vanity, Perfume & Shaving / Perfumes / Decorative Glass/Crystal
This antique late 1800s scent bottle or flask is made from silver covered with brilliant cobalt blue enamel. The surface of the perfume bottle has an exquisitely hand painted cherub or putti done in white and black enamels and the background is sprinkled with little flowers in raised enamels, mostly white, pink and teal blue with gilt accents. The lipstick sized flask comes in a velvet-lined leather case whose only decoration is a raised spiral. The perfume has a hinged cover whose mounts are vermeil (gold over silver). A boar's head, the French hallmark for at least 800/1000 silver, is stamped on the upper and lower rims. Alas, the glass stopper is missing. The glass liner is intact with no damage. The scent bottle is 2" (51 mm) high. and weighs 28 grams. Condition issues are : the missing stopper, a little wear of the gilding on the mounts, some fraying of the case lining, and there are some tiny nicks in the enamel on the base of the perfume. The chips don't go all the way through to the base metal and are mostly sensed with the fingers rather than the eyes; my last photo shows the chips.