Topic: Salvador or Paul Ysart inkwell?

[paperweights]

Thanks Gary, Kevin, and Alan.

I had the impression that a perfume bottle will often have a long pointed stopper so the owner can dip into the perfume and then touch (dab) the perfume to whatever body part is to be scented.

Just an observation.  I'm not a collector of scent bottles.  I agree there is no consistency among paperweight related objects.

Allan

[Gary]

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Did anyone really use these bottles for ink or scent?  I doubt it very much.  Surely the names are just notional, and so you call them what you wish?

Alan

Whilst agreeing very few people nowadays use Monart inkwells or scent bottles for their intended purposes.
When Monart was first produced it was intended for practical use and not just a decorative item and as such were marketed as vases for flowers,fruit bowls, inkwells, scent bottles ect.
As a Monart collector and researcher it is important for me to learn the differences between Monart pieces and to be able to categorise them. To me what they are called is not notional,but very real.
If we followed your argument a stage further, we could call paperweights, lumps of glass with some glass inside, as nobody uses paperweights to hold down paper on a desk anymore (or very few).
Gary

[KevinH]

I am "one of the few"!! I do use paperweights, including Ysart ones, for that purpose.