Scent bottles

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CONNOISSEUR MONOGRAPHS General Editor: Frank Davis
The Connoisseur Monographs have been planned as standard works, each on one aspect of antiques, for the scholar, the collector and the generál reader. The subjects have been carefully selected by Frank Davis, the generál editor, as being in his opinion in need of a concise and thorough approach.
Other titles in this series include:
European Bronze Statuettes by Anthony Radcliffe Qontinental Cjold and Silver by Gerald Taylor dAnglican Qhurch T/ate-J by James Gilchrist English Qlockj by Muriéi Goaman
A CONNOISSEUR MONOGRAPH
Scent bottles
by Kate Foster
rvith 8 colour plates and 96 illustrations in black and ívhite
Scent Bottles traces the history of these charming objects from the 6th century b.c. to the early 19th century.
It is to Egypt, approximately three thousand years ago, that we must look for evidence of the first scent bottles. They are depicted in wall-paintings, and many bottles, most of them made of ' glass,... Tovább

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CONNOISSEUR MONOGRAPHS General Editor: Frank Davis
The Connoisseur Monographs have been planned as standard works, each on one aspect of antiques, for the scholar, the collector and the generál reader. The subjects have been carefully selected by Frank Davis, the generál editor, as being in his opinion in need of a concise and thorough approach.
Other titles in this series include:
European Bronze Statuettes by Anthony Radcliffe Qontinental Cjold and Silver by Gerald Taylor dAnglican Qhurch T/ate-J by James Gilchrist English Qlockj by Muriéi Goaman
A CONNOISSEUR MONOGRAPH
Scent bottles
by Kate Foster
rvith 8 colour plates and 96 illustrations in black and ívhite
Scent Bottles traces the history of these charming objects from the 6th century b.c. to the early 19th century.
It is to Egypt, approximately three thousand years ago, that we must look for evidence of the first scent bottles. They are depicted in wall-paintings, and many bottles, most of them made of ' glass, have been found in tombs.
" From Egypt the fashion for scent and its containers spread to Greece and the Román Empire, and by the sixteenth century it was a flourishing trade all over Europe.
Undoubtedly the eighteenth century was the most fruitful period in the history of the scent bottle. Innumerable bottles were made in porcelain, enamel, copper, glass, mother-of-pearl, gold and silver, or combinations of these materials. However, it is the names connected with the actual scent, rather than the names of the craftsmen responsible for their design and manufacture, that survive for the most part today. Scent bottles vary in shape as they do in their place of manufacture. There was hardly a porcelain factory that did not produce them, nor a goldsmith or silversmith, who did not try his hand at this art. Vissza