Scent Bottle
ca. 1760 (made)
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Scent bottle of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Globular body with a gourd-shaped neck, divided by thin gilt ribs, and the body into eight sections and the neck into four sections. Painted with sprays of flowers.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Scent bottle of soft-paste porcelain, Buen Retiro porcelain factory, Buen Retiro, ca. 1760 |
| Physical description | Scent bottle of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Globular body with a gourd-shaped neck, divided by thin gilt ribs, and the body into eight sections and the neck into four sections. Painted with sprays of flowers. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Traces of a fleur-de-lys (In blue) |
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| Object history | One of a pair with 323-1876. |
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| Accession number | 324-1876 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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